Assessment of Health Workers’ Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Use of Personal Protective Equipment for Prevention of COVID-19 Infection in Low-Resource Settings

Table 6

Healthcare workers’ PPE skill in practice (N = 272).

Question	Frequency	Percentage
Have you ever used PPE before?	174	64.0
Have you ever seen PPE used before?	244	89.7
Does your facility have any policy on PPE use?	134	49.3
Do you know how to correctly select PPE?	80	29.4
Respondents who know how to correctly wear and remove PPE?	108	39.7
Respondents with correct knowledge of donning PPE	18	6.6
Respondents with correct knowledge of doffing of PPE	34	12.5
Respondents with correct knowledge of decontamination and or disposal PPE	110	40.4
Do you utilize the recommendations on the glove packet including biohazard symbol to make informed choice of the appropriate glove to wear?	90	33.1
How often do you wear PPE?
Never	52	19.1
Rarely	56	20.6
Occasionally	92	33.8
Often	60	22.1
Always	12	4.4