Knowledge of Hand Hygiene among Undergraduate Medical Students in a Tertiary Healthcare Facility of District Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India: A Cross Sectional Study

Authors

  • Mudit Chauhan PG JR, Department of Community Medicine, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh India.
  • Pooja Pathak PG JR, Department of Community Medicine, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Somesh Bajpai PG JR, Department of Community Medicine, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Dr. Sushil Kumar Shukla
  • Dheeraj Srivastava Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Naresh Pal Singh Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Keywords:

COVID-19, Hand Hygiene, WHO Hand Hygiene Recommended Steps, Awareness of Hand Hygiene, Healthcare Awareness

Abstract

Globally, we are going through the pandemic of COVID-19 also known
as novel Corona virus disease or SARSCov-2 since last one year. Corona
virus was found to be originated from Wuhan city of China. As of now,
there is no treatment for COVID-19 disease, we are giving symptomatic
treatment and few evidence-based drugs to treat the COVID-19 patients.
To control the spread of COVID-19 disease, hand hygiene is among the
most important measures including wearing a mask and maintaining
the social distancing. The study was conducted among the students of
2020 and 2019 batches of MBBS in tertiary care facilities with simple
random sampling technique. Total of 100 students were selected
randomly according to their roll numbers. From each batch, 50 students
were asked to perform the hand hygiene steps recommended by WHO
in front of the interviewer. From 2020 batch, only 26 (52%) students
and from the 2019 batch 39 (78%), were able to perform the hand
hygiene steps recommended by WHO. The rest of the students had
improper knowledge of hand hygiene. After applying Fisher’s exact
test, the p-value is 0.0113 (P<0.5) which was found to be significant.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2394.6539.202104

How to cite this article:
Chauhan M, Pathak P, Bajpai S, Shukla SK,
Srivastava D, Singh NP. Knowledge of Hand
Hygiene among Undergraduate Medical Students
a Tertiary Healthcare Facility of District Etawah,
Uttar Pradesh, India: A Cross Sectional Study. J
Adv Res Med Sci Tech. 2021;8(2):4-6.

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2021-08-05