Abstract
Background: #Healthcare wastes can be #potentially risky to
health care providers, patients', the community and the environment
particularly when it is inappropriately placed at the time of
generation. Data on the knowledge and practice of healthcare
professionals on health care waste segregation is scarce in our setting.
Therefore, the objective of the study was to assess knowledge, practice
and associated factors of health care waste segregation among health
care providers at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized
Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2017.
Methods: Institution based cross sectional study was conducted
from April 10 to May 10, 2017. Pretested #self-administered questionnaire and observational checklist were used. The data was coded,
cleaned and entered into Epi Info version 7#statistical software and
analyzed using SPSS version 20.
Result: This study revealed that health care providers who had
adequate knowledge and appropriate practice about health care waste
segregation were 39% and 42.6% respectively. In the multivariable
#analysis training (AOR 1.81 CI 95% 1.15, 2.88), and reward (AOR 1.80 CI
95% 1.10, 2.89) were significantly associated with the knowledge. And
training (AOR 1.71 CI 95% 1.08, 2.71), personal needs to use personal
protective equipment for health care waste handling (AOR 3.15 CI 95%
1.97, 4.45), were significantly associated with the practice of health
care waste segregation.
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