Assessment Of The Knowledge Attitude And Practice Of Fourth Fifth And Sixth Year Medical Students On Standard Precaution In Tash Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2014

Background; employingstandard precautions means taking precautions with everybody. Ifrnprecautions are taken with everyone, health care workers do not have to make assumptions aboutrnpeople's lifestyles and risk of infection.rnObjectives: The main objective of the study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices ofrnmedical students on Standard precautions.rnMethods: This cross sectional health institution based survey was conducted in TASH, AddisrnAbaba University,among medical students who are 4th, 5th and 6th year. The study usesrnquantitative methods. Statistical significance was determined by computing mean variationsrnusing logistic regression.rnResult:The total knowledge score showed the level that 118(54.6%) had fair knowledgern71(32.9%) has good knowledge and 27(12.5%) had poor knowledge. Total knowledge score ofrnrespondents range from 6 to 18 out of 18 the mean knowledge score 13.37 with sd of+2.42.Thernknowledge level on standard precaution132 (61.1%) had good knowledge, 25(11.6%) fair andrn59(29.6%) poor knowledge.Attitude score of the respondents showed that 180(83%) scoredrnabove half. Overall practice score showed that 117(53.9%) had fair practice while 15(6.9%) hadrngood practice and 85(39.2%) had poor practice. Practice score standard precaution showed thatrn125(56.8%) had fair 69(32.6%) poor and 23(10.6%) good practice. Hand hygiene practicernshowed that 12.9% had good practice while 21% fair and 66.1% poor practice.Weak associationrnwas found between knowledge and attitude (r = 0.354; P

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