Knowledge attitude and practice of health care workers towards hospital acquired infection prevention in Joseph Hospital, Tamil Nadu, India.

Health care workers are all the time reveal to micro organism; many of them can affect serious or even grave infections. Nurses in particular are often uncover to various infections during their nursing pursuit. Therefore health care workers should have sound knowledge and accurately abidance to infection control practice to avert hospital acquired infection prevention. Aims: the study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding hospital acquired infection prevention among health care workers at Joseph hospital. Method: Institutional based cross sectional study was piloted amidst health care workers. The participants were selected by simple random sampling method was taken on. Statistical package (SPSS) version 25 was used to analyze the data and presented in frequency and percentage distribution on tables and graph. Findings: In this study 172 respondents were participated, semi structured self administered questionnaire was used. The study result shows that 85%, 78% and 60% of participants had good knowledge favorable attitude and good practice respecting to hospital acquired infection prevention. Conclusion: however majority of the health care workers had good knowledge and favorable attitude and half of them had good practice regarding hospital acquired infection prevention. Consequently the health care workers purely follow the HAIP policies as well as rules and regulations, more over providing continuing education training programs for newly nurses about infection control.