Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices towards Infection Control among Health Care Staff in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Health care staff have a professional, ethical, and legal commitment to maintain patient safety. When caring for patients, health care staff can be exposed to a variety of harmful pathogens that may lead to a health care–acquired infection (Sulaiman Althiyabi et al.,). These infections can delay recovery, increase the length of patient stay in the hospital, increase morbidities and mortalities, and increase the antibiotic resistance of pathogens. Exclusive avoidance can reduce health care security infections by 16% to 70%. To provide safe and quality health care services is to enforce effective infection prevention and control programs. Infrastructures and other related services and training are insufficient in several health care facilities of Taif, Saudi Arabia. It was shown that the knowledge and practice of health care workers toward infection control is inadequate. Therefore, this research is intended to assess the practices, understanding, and attitudes of health care staff toward infection control (Abalkhail et al., 2021). A similar study was carried out in 2015. However, the present study was limited to evaluating the compliance of staff with standard preventive precautions only.