A Study to Determine the Knowledge and Practice Regarding Biomedical Waste Management Among Paramedical Workers in Selected Primary Health Center at Deoria Uttarpradesh

Main Article Content

Ajay Sharma, Sudharani B Banappagoudar, Ambali Pancholi

Abstract

 


The waste produced in the course of healthcare activities have    higher potential for infection and injury than any injury than any other type of waste. Therefore it is essential to have safe and reliable method for its handling. Inadequate and inappropriate handling of health care waste may have serious public health consequences and a significant impact on the environment. Appropriate management of health care waste needs a crucial component of environment health protection and it should become an integral feature of health care services. The quantitative research approach with descriptive design was used in this study.The purpose of the study to asses the knowledge and practice of biomedical waste management among paramedical workers. Semi structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge regarding biomedical waste management verbal response / checklist to assess the practice of biomedical waste management. The Inferential descriptive statistics was used. The convenient sampling technique was used to select 100 health personnel. Health personnel who were available at the time of data collection. Overall result shows that there is a positive relationship between knowledge and practice checked by Karl Pearson’s correlation. The computed 'r' value is  + 0.511 shows the positive correlation between knowledge and practice. Hence it is proved that Health Personnel who had adequate knowledge follows the satisfied level of practice. Further Findings revealed that age,sex, marital status,occupation, is found associated with knowledge. Result shows that there is association between practice and selected demographic variables such as religion and occupation.


Conclusion: From the study we would like to conclude that majority of paramedical workers have moderate level of knowledge; but none of them having adequate level of practices. It was noticed that the primary health centers were not providing adequate facilities to practice bio-medical waste management.


 

Article Details

Section
Articles
Author Biography

Ajay Sharma, Sudharani B Banappagoudar, Ambali Pancholi