Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Hospital acquired infection is higher in low- and middle-income countries
because of inadequate knowledge of hospital acquired infection prevention and poor adherence
to standard infection prevention practices.
Objective: To assess knowledge, practice towards hospital acquired infections prevention and
associated factors among nurses working at University referral Hospital in Southern Nations,
Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia 2021.
Methods: A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted among 423 randomly selected
nurses working at University Referral Hospitals in Southern, Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’
Region, Ethiopia from April 01-30/2021. Data was collected by self administer questionnaires.
Multivariable binary logistic regressions were used to assess the association between the
outcome variables and explanatory variables. The adjusted odds ratio was calculated and
variables with p-value less than or equal to 0.05 at 95% confidence interval were declared as
statistically significant.
Results: The study found that 45.5%
