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Development of the Questionnaire on Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, and Experience Regarding Infection Prevention and Control Among Environmental Service Workers
64 Pages Posted: 1 Jul 2022
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Background: Environmental service workers are the critical first line of defence against health care-associated infections. It is important to understand the knowledge, attitudes, practice, and experience regarding infection prevention and control for environmental service workers. However, a knowledge, attitudes, practice, and experience questionnaire evaluation tool regarding infection prevention and control for environmental service workers has not been designed.
Methods: We performed two rounds of the Delphi technique and one round of a pilot survey.
Findings: Two Delphi rounds were completed by 15 eligible experts (48.07 ± 7.98 y). Over half the experts were postgraduates (53.33%, n = 8) or worked as clinical staff or infection prevention and control staff (60%, n = 9). Regarding the revised questionnaire, the expert panellists’ ratings of each item met the criteria (correlation value Kendall's W = 0.221/0.096; importance value Kendall's W = 0.221/0.101, P < 0.05). Pilot survey with 1176 ESWs, all items had good reliability and validity, as shown by Cronbach's α =0.967 and S-CVI/Ave = 0.989. The questionnaire comprised 49 items across four subscales.
Interpretation: The study findings will provide a tool for future national investigations of the current infection prevention and control situation among environmental service workers.
Funding Information: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Declaration of Interests: We declare that we have no conflict of interest.
Ethics Approval Statement: The study obtained the approval of the Institutional Review Board of Wuhan University (NO: 2021119). Written informed consent was obtained from each recruited patient before the questionnaire survey was administered.
Keywords: Infection prevention and control, Environmental service worker, Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, and Experience, Delphi method
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