1Assistant Professor, MNRMC, Sangareddy
2Post Graduate Community Medicine, MNRMC, Sangareddy
Online published on 1 November, 2018.
About 80 percent of total waste generated in healthcare activities is a general waste but the remaining 20 percent of it involves toxic, infectious and radioactive waste and 20 percent of this non general biomedical waste is highly dangerous and can be a serious threat to the community and the environment if it is not segregated disposed of adequately.
To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice toward handling of biomedical waste among healthcare workers, before and after an educational intervention.
An interventional study conducted at a Medical college in Telangana. 100 respondents were taken, which includes nurses, class IV workers, junior residents and doctors. An identical pre and post-training questionnaire was designed which was pre-tested & semi-structured Data were collected between June to August. Statistical analysis was carried out by using SPSS version 22 using chi-square test.
Significant improvement was seen about the knowledge of biomedical waste management after the intervention. Bio-medical waste disposal p value was found to be highly significant (p= 0.00001)
Knowledge, attitude, and practice have significantly improved after post intervention given in the form of workshop.
Biomedical waste, knowledge, attitude, practice, health care workers
