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?