Investigation of Patients' Awareness about Hospital Infection Symptoms at Shahid Kamyab Educational Hospital from March to September 2015

Annually, more than 1.4 million of the world population suffer from nosocomial infections. The present study aimed to assess the patients' knowledge about the symptoms of hospital infections. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted through the census method on 350 patients admitted to Shahid Kamyab Hospital, Mashhad, Iran. They were asked to complete a researcher-made questionnaire covering such information as demographic characteristics and questions to evaluate awareness about the symptoms of hospital-acquired infections. The data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 22) using descriptive statistics. The majority of the participants (65%) in this study were male, and 68.7% of the cases had a higher level of awareness regarding the symptoms of hospital infections. Considering the higher level of patients' knowledge about the symptoms of hospital infections, the patients' education process can be continued to keep and improve this trend.