Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Handling and Transportation of Samples among Tuberculosis Healthcare Providers in Khartoum State

Abstract

This is descriptive case study was conducted at twenty TB health facilities government and private at Khartoum state during the period from August to October 2017. The study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice in handling and transportation of samples among tuberculosis healthcare providers. One hundred participants were selected from TB health facility. The data obtained was analyzed using SPSS program version 16.0, frequencies were calculated. The present study revealed that the levels of TB knowledge in handling and transportation of specimens in health care providers as follow; lab specialist (15/34) nurses (14/33) physician (5/33) had trained on handling of infectious materials, majority (66%) of study participants had never been trained. Among lab specialist (10/34) nurses (4/33) physician (3/33) had trained on transportation of specimens, majority (83%) of study participants had never been trained. The study found that more than half of the health care providers had a positive attitude towards TB in availability of request form in facility (54%), while (46%) of study participants hadn’t request forms and clearly stated data on request form (64%), while (36%) of study participant found not clearly stated data. Regarding to the practices towards TB in health care providers (25%) of study participant had feedback mechanism between the lab and health facility, majority (75%) of study participant hadn’t feedback mechanism. (5%) of study participant met international regulation requirement procedures for transportation of specimen, majority (95%) of study participants hadn’t met international regulation requirement. (5%) of study participants following requirement of IATA regulation regarding packaging instruction for air transport of category (B) biological material, majority (95%) of study participants hadn’t following requirement. (7%) of study participants label outer packaging clear; shipper, consignee, transport details, quantity and type of packaging, packaging instruction, refrigerant were used, majority (93%) of study participant hadn’t package. (19%) of study participants had found document identified the content of the primary receptacle or request form outside the secondary packaged, majority (81%) of study participants hadn’t found package.