TITLE:
Evaluation of Infection Prevention and Control Programmes (IPC), and Assessment Tools for IPC-Programmes at MOH-Health Facilities in Saudi Arabia
AUTHORS:
Abdullah M. Assiri, Abdul Jamil Choudhry, Suhair S. Alsaleh, Khalid H. Alanazi, Suha S. Alsaleh
KEYWORDS:
Infection Prevention Control, Assessment Tools, Health Facility, Saudi Arabia
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.4 No.7,
June
9,
2014
ABSTRACT: Infection Prevention and Control is a Quality
Standard and is crucial in all health care facilities. Many hospitals remain
deficient in trained infection control professionals (ICPs), and now there is an
acute awareness of the need to correct this shortfall. The objectives of the
study were to describe the current status of ICP programs at ministry of health
(MOH) and to evaluate the current status of infection prevention and control
programs at health care facilities in kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A cross
sectional interview and a self assessment study were conducted on infection
prevention and control (IPC) program in Saudi Arabia. All the MOH hospital in
all regions was randomly chosen to the study setting. The selection of
facilities was done at random with a clear intention to include twenty regions. A random sample was taken from these hospitals with sample size 56 (55.4%), by
Multi stage random sampling technique. Results
showed that the total facility in all over the kingdom was 51.4% where central
area covered the facility score 58.2%, followed by western area (54.8%), south
(53.7%), east (46.3%), and lastly with (45.8%) north area. Survey revealed that
the infrastructure for infection control program in Saudi Arabian hospitals
remained underdeveloped. There were defects in the identified components of
effective infection control programs.