Assessment of the Level of Knowledge and Awareness towards Universal Precautions among Surgeons? at King Abdul-Aziz University-Saudi Arabia

Background Compliance with policies and procedures of universal precautions need to be highly valued and practices by all the health care practitioners, though decisive staff development in the prevention and transmission infectious diseases. Objective To assess knowledge and awareness towards universal precautions among surgeons at the King Abdul-Aziz University-Saudi Arabia. Method A cross-sectional survey was conducted at King Abdul Aziz University Hospital, Saudi Arabia. A 28item self-administered questionnaire was provided to 150 surgeons in the research setting based on their area of their surgical specialties to assess their level of knowledge and awareness towards universal precautions. Results The majority of the participants were showed a high Level of adherence towards protective equipments (86.0 %) ** which represent highly significance differences (Pless than0.0001). More than half (57.0 %) of the respondents were very knowledgeable of universal precautions with statistically significantly difference (Pless than001). While, approximately more than one third of the participants (40.0 %) were not knowledgeable of universal precautions Furthermore, majority of the participants (78.7 %) ** which revealed a highly statistically significantly difference (Pless than0001) were replied that they were adequacy of protective equipments within the current research setting. Concerning the assessment for the level of awareness towards universal precautions the current study results showed that majority of the participants were showed a high level of awareness towards universal precautions (86.0 %) ** which represent highly significance differences (Pless than0.0001). Conclusions The current study results revealed that there were a high levels of knowledge and awareness among surgeons towards universal precautions within the study setting.