The Correlation Between Visitors Knowledge About Handwashing With Visitor Handwashing Practice At Arifin Achmad General Hospital

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dc.contributor.authorWoferst, Rismadefi
dc.contributor.authorHuda, Nurul
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-12T08:17:37Z
dc.date.available2016-01-12T08:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-12
dc.description.abstractEvery year, the incidence of nosocomial infection in Arifin Achmad general hospital is increases significantly. This kind of infection could be transmitted from the patient to visitor or from visitor to the patients. One of the way to decrease nosocomial transmission is through increasing visitor handwashing behavior. The aim of this study is to identify the correlation between visitor knowledge about handwashing with visitor handwashing habits. This study is correlational design with total sampling method. The sample are 64 visitors from medical ward Arifin Ahmad general hospital. Data obtained from questionnaires as research instruments. The results of this study show that 84,4% visitors have high knowledge about handwashing procedure and 54,6% visitors can practice handwashing properly. Fisher test show p value 1.00 which means there is no correlation between visitor knowledge with hand washing behavior in order to prevent nosocomial infection. Based on this study, it is need to re-asses another factor that influence nosocomial infection. And the nurse need to socialize proper handwashing procedure to visitors through health education urgently and increase the discipline of the visitor to do right handwashing procedure.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipRiau International Nursing Conference 2015en_US
dc.identifier.issn2461-1069
dc.identifier.otherwahyu sari yeni
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.unri.ac.id/xmlui/handle/123456789/7743
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectbehavioren_US
dc.subjecthand washingen_US
dc.subjectnosocomial infectionen_US
dc.titleThe Correlation Between Visitors Knowledge About Handwashing With Visitor Handwashing Practice At Arifin Achmad General Hospitalen_US
dc.typeUR-Proceedingsen_US

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