HAND HYGIENE PRACTICES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS.

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Abstract

Objective: To explore the knowledge of, and attitudes towards hand hygiene among clerkship medical students at Basra.


        Methods: A “cross-sectional study” was executed. The questionnaire includes 10questions with multiple choice answers (total = 33 answers) Collected data were entered into a database; SPSS Version 22.0 was used for statistical analysis.


       Results: Two hundred and eight scholars took part in the questionnaire study. Around 45.7%and 54.3% of students were males and females, separately. The larger part, 168 (80.8%) professed to have gotten preparing in hand hygiene. Additionally, the greater part of them 136(65.4%) was routinely use alcohol based hand rub for hand cleanliness.


      Conclusion: The results show that the larger part of medical students had good hygiene knowledge and routinely use alcohol based hand rub for hand cleanliness. Alcohol-based hand-rub and handwashing are applied for about 20 seconds; it becomes effective in killing the germs.

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“HAND HYGIENE PRACTICES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS”., IEJRD - International Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 5, no. Conference, p. 7, May 2020.
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