Compliance Of Health Care Professionals With Hand Hygiene Practice And Its Associated Factors Among General Hospital In Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Introduction: Globally, a significant proportion of healthcare providers and patients acquire nosocomial infections. Failure to perform appropriate hand hygiene is considered to be the leading cause of health care acquired infection worldwide. In Addis Ababa, different report show that health care worker hand hygiene compliance was low in both public and private health care institution even though there were few detail studies done in this arearnObjectives: To describe compliance of health care professionals with hand hygiene practice and its associated factors among general hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 2017.rnMethodology: An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted among general hospitals in Addis Ababa. Simple random sampling system was used to select participants. Seven hundred eight health care professionals were included in the study. Data was collected by 4 data collectors and 1 supervisor using pre-tested questionnaire after appropriate training. The data was entered into EPI data version 3.1, and then exported to SPSS version 22 for data management and analysis. Variable with p value

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