Evaluation of knowledge, attitude and practice health care personnel in some hospitals in Yazd toward the use of Disinfectants

Inappropriate use of disinfectants is one of the causes of the spread of nosocomial infections. This study was performed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of the staff in some hospitals in Yazd regarding the use of disinfectants.

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study which was performed on 181 employees of four educational hospitals related to Yazd university of medical sciences. Sampling was done by random sampling. Data gathering tool in this study was a demographic questionnaire, a researcher-made questionnaire for measuring knowledge, attitude and practice. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20 at a significant level, P= 0˂0.05.

The results showed that there is no significant relationship between any of the main variables in the research and demonstrates that all variables are independent of each other (p>/05) On the other hand, the results of this study showed that there is no significant difference between knowledge of men and women and their performance in relation to use disinfectants (p :/.614) While the women's attitudes toward disinfestation were higher than men's (p :/.26).

The findings of this study showed that the state of knowledge, attitude and practice of the staff are not in good condition .Therefore, it is suggested that hospital managers plan to improve the level of employee information for using disinfectants to provide the safer environment.