Knowledge among Health care workers (HCWs) regarding biomedical waste management (BMW) during COVID-19 Pandemic

2023 · doi:10.32388/0x5px9
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This study assessed healthcare workers' knowledge of biomedical waste management during COVID-19, finding doctors had the highest mean knowledge score, followed by nurses, with sanitary attendants scoring the lowest.

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This paper assessed knowledge among healthcare workers about biomedical waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic, using an assessment of HCWs’ understanding of BMW practices. The main finding was an overall evaluation of HCWs’ knowledge levels regarding biomedical waste management in the pandemic context. The paper’s primary limitation, implied by its focus on knowledge assessment, is that it does not directly measure waste management performance or patient/outcome impacts. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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To study the knowledge and attitude among healthcare workers regarding bio-medical waste management at SKIMS, a cross- sectional study in prospective design was conducted in randomly selected areas.The study population included doctors, nurses, technician and sanitary staff. A semi-structured questionnaire was adapted from different research papers was used as a study tool. Observation revealed that among the entire study group doctors had a highest mean knowledge score, followed by nursing staff.Lowest mean knowledge score was found in sanitary attendants. There was a significant difference is mean knowledge score of postgraduate nurses who had a higher mean knowledge score compared to undergraduates having a mean knowledge score.
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