Conference abstract
Knowledge, attitude, and factors influencing health care wastes (HCWs) management among nurses in selected hospitals in Abeokuta, Ogun State
Pan African Medical Journal - Conference Proceedings. 2022:12(8).16
Feb 2022.
doi: 10.11604/pamj-cp.2022.12.8.1236
Archived on: 16 Feb 2022
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Keywords: Factors, healthcare waste, knowledge, nurses
Oral presentation
Knowledge, attitude, and factors influencing health care wastes (HCWs) management among nurses in selected hospitals in Abeokuta, Ogun State
Lilian Imwonghomwen Akaka1,&, Julius Olatade Maitanmi1, Oluwadamilare Akingbade2,3
1Department of Community/Public Health Nursing, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2Institute of Nursing Research, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria, 3The Nethersole School of Nursing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
&Corresponding author
Introduction: Healthcare wastes (HCWs) are one of the most hazardous wastes globally, second to only radiation waste. In developing countries especially in Africa, healthcare waste has not received the much-needed attention that it deserves, resulting to low priority of HCWs management which can lead to exposure to infectious diseases such as, Hepatitis B, HIV, and needle stick injury. The objectives of the research was conducted to ascertain the knowledge, attitude, and identify factors influencing HCW management among nurses in selected hospitals in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive survey design and convenience sampling technique was employed. Self-developed instrument with 32 items was distributed among 129 nurses at the State hospital Ijaiye and Oba Ademola II hospital, Ake Abeokuta. Data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) version 21.
Results: the results were presented using percentage and frequency tables. Based on categorization of the variables, majority (75.0%) of the nurses had high knowledge on HCWs management. Majority (88.3%) of the nurses had positive attitude toward HCWs management. About factors influencing HCW management among nurses, 85% agreed to unavailability of resources, 67.5% agreed to untimely removal of filled wastes bins, 61.7% agreed to patients’ relative involvement while 80.9% agreed to poor regulations/enforcement of HCWs management. Fail to reject null hypothesis as p-value .566 proved that there was no significant association between knowledge of nurse and factors that influence HCWs management.
Conclusion: Implication to Nursing: nurses must sustain and continuously improve their knowledge on HCWs management. Heads of nursing unit should constitute a supervisory/enforcement body to intimate stakeholders of health care institutions such as health care administrators and health care policy makers on the need to institute regulation on timely emptying of waste bins, ensure availability of resources to sustain HCWs management. Similarly, nurses can take up the responsibility to educate patients and patient relatives on proper use of available HCWs management resources. Further studies can be carried out extensively on the impact of poor HCWs management to emphasize the importance of proper HCWs management.
Knowledge, attitude, and factors influencing health care wastes (HCWs) management among nurses in selected hospitals in Abeokuta, Ogun State
Lilian Imwonghomwen Akaka1,&, Julius Olatade Maitanmi1, Oluwadamilare Akingbade2,3
1Department of Community/Public Health Nursing, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2Institute of Nursing Research, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria, 3The Nethersole School of Nursing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
&Corresponding author
Introduction: Healthcare wastes (HCWs) are one of the most hazardous wastes globally, second to only radiation waste. In developing countries especially in Africa, healthcare waste has not received the much-needed attention that it deserves, resulting to low priority of HCWs management which can lead to exposure to infectious diseases such as, Hepatitis B, HIV, and needle stick injury. The objectives of the research was conducted to ascertain the knowledge, attitude, and identify factors influencing HCW management among nurses in selected hospitals in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive survey design and convenience sampling technique was employed. Self-developed instrument with 32 items was distributed among 129 nurses at the State hospital Ijaiye and Oba Ademola II hospital, Ake Abeokuta. Data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) version 21.
Results: the results were presented using percentage and frequency tables. Based on categorization of the variables, majority (75.0%) of the nurses had high knowledge on HCWs management. Majority (88.3%) of the nurses had positive attitude toward HCWs management. About factors influencing HCW management among nurses, 85% agreed to unavailability of resources, 67.5% agreed to untimely removal of filled wastes bins, 61.7% agreed to patients’ relative involvement while 80.9% agreed to poor regulations/enforcement of HCWs management. Fail to reject null hypothesis as p-value .566 proved that there was no significant association between knowledge of nurse and factors that influence HCWs management.
Conclusion: Implication to Nursing: nurses must sustain and continuously improve their knowledge on HCWs management. Heads of nursing unit should constitute a supervisory/enforcement body to intimate stakeholders of health care institutions such as health care administrators and health care policy makers on the need to institute regulation on timely emptying of waste bins, ensure availability of resources to sustain HCWs management. Similarly, nurses can take up the responsibility to educate patients and patient relatives on proper use of available HCWs management resources. Further studies can be carried out extensively on the impact of poor HCWs management to emphasize the importance of proper HCWs management.
