Health Workers' Attitude and Perception to Blood Borne Infections and Safety Practice Compliance in A Selected Teaching Hospital in Ogun State

This study investigated health worker’s attitude and perception to blood borne infections and safety practice compliance in a Selected Teaching Hospital in Ogun State. The study specifically examined the respondent’s attitude to blood borne infections; the respondent’s perception of blood borne infections and assessed the respondent’s safety practice compliance level in Babcock University Teaching Hospital. The study adopted descriptive cross-sectional survey design. Study population consisted of health workers from departments in Babcock University Teaching Hospital. Random sampling technique was employed in the selection of 308 respondents. The study employed the use of a structured questionnaire which consisted of four sections. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was established by experts in the field of public health nursing. Corrections were made to improve the quality of the instrument. The reliability test was determined through the use of Cronbach’s alpha with a result of 0.706. The data collected was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings of the study revealed that health workers showed an average attitude to blood borne infections. Also, the perception of the respondents in both clinical and laboratory departments towards blood borne infections is revealed to be high. It was further revealed that the respondents showed a very high compliance with the safety practice against blood-borne infections. It was recommended among others that training on standard precautions and use of personal protective equipment should be done more often especially for new staffs in the hospital.

Keywords: Health Workers, Attitude, Perception, Blood Borne Infections, Safety Practice Compliance,