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Abstract

ABSTRACT

Associated factors with performance of infection control among some physical therapists

Seol, Yoon-Yee Advisor : Prof. Han, Mi Ah M.D., Ph.D Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Health Science, Chosun University

Objectives: The infection management is important for physical therapists to protect patients and themselves since they have physical contact with patients very often and take care of them. The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of infection control and associated factors among physical therapists.

Methods: The study subjects were 174 physical therapists working in the G metropolitan city. Collected data was analyzed by SPSS program. We checked the general characteristics using descriptive analysis. The performance of infection control by general characteristics, job-related characteristics, infection-related characteristics were compared using t-test and ANOVA. The association between awareness and performance of infection control were tested by correlation. Finally, multiple linear regression analysis were performed to investigated the associated factors with performance of infection control.

Results: Overall performance scores of personal and therapyroom were 87.47±11.70 and 70.08±13.68, respectively. Both of personal and thearpyroom infection control were lower at the degree of performance than the degree of awareness. For the degree for the performance of personal level, it was related to current smoking status, type of charge therapy, supply of protection equipment and awareness of personal infection control in multiple linear regression analysis. For the degree for the performance of therapyroom, it was related to injury experience in workplace, supply of protection equipment and awareness of therapyroom infection control.

Conclusions: Performance of personal infection control was lower than the performance of therapyroom infection control. And the performance were associated with supply of protection equipment and awareness. So, the degree of performance for the infection control will be increased by proper supply of protection equipment and increasing the degree of awareness.

Key words: Awareness; Infection control; Performance; Physical therapists