Evaluation of the Infection Control Training in The Sulaimani City Governmental and Nongovernmental Hospitals

Abstract

Background: The healthcare staff, to apply prevention and control health associated infection guidelines need basic knowledge on standard precaution and the medical staff to gain this knowledge they need education through effective training. For that reason, training is a fundamental part of every infection control programs.      

Objectives: Aim of the study is to evaluate the Sulaimani governmental and non-governmental hospitals training process on the infection control.    

Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried at inside Sulaimani city (11 governmental and 7 non-governmental) hospitals in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the data collected by constructed questionnaire form both hospital administrations and also from 200 healthcare workers who working in those hospitals from 2nd October 2022 to 25th February 2023.                                                                                 

Results: The result show that most of the Sulaimani hospitals their infection control responsible of staff training 11 (61.1%), provide continuous training on the infection control 16 (88.9%) and 9 (56.25%) provide training when the workers need it. For healthcare staff, majority of the healthcare staff 111 (55.5%) did not attended any training on the infection control and 142 (71%) did not attended any training in the current hospitals they working in it now.        

Conclusion: the study reveals that most of the Sulaimani hospitals claim that they having a continuous training based on the evaluated data on the healthcare staff knowledge. Contrast majority of the healthcare staff reported that they did not attend any infection control training in the previous or the current hospital