Table 4 Baseline characteristics of graduate health science students towards prevention and control of nosocomial infection
Characteristics | Frequency | Percentage (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Gender | |||
Male | 287 | 68% | |
Female | 135 | 32% | |
Age | |||
21–25 | 414 | 98% | |
25–30 | 8 | 2% | |
Department | |||
Health informatics | 29 | 6.9% | |
Medical laboratory sciences | 29 | 6.9% | |
Health officer | 66 | 15.6% | |
Physiotherapy | 19 | 4.5% | |
Environmental &occupational health & safety | 18 | 4.3% | |
Psychiatry | 28 | 6.6% | |
Optometry | 23 | 5.5% | |
Midwives | 62 | 14.7% | |
Nurse | 74 | 17.5% | |
Pharmacy | 52 | 12.3% | |
Anesthesia | 22 | 5.2% | |
Start Clinical attachment | 2nd | 231 | 54.8% |
3rd | 92 | 21.8% | |
4th | 52 | 12.3% | |
No attachment | 47 | 11.1% | |
Attachment last | Month | 375 | 88.9% |
No clinical attachment | 47 | 11.1% | |
Clinical attachment shift | 4 h | 62 | 16.5% |
6 h | 95 | 25.3% | |
8 h | 102 | 27.2% | |
12 h | 64 | 17.1% | |
No shift in case of on clinical attachment | 52 | 13.9% | |
Training on “infection prevention” | Yes | 169 | 40.0% |
No | 253 | 60.0% | |
Duration of training | Less than 6 months ago | 29 | 17.2% |
6 months to 1 year | 74 | 43.8% | |
More than one year | 66 | 39.0% | |