| dc.description.abstract | This was a descriptive survey study whose purpose was to determine the factors influencing infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital, Kisii County. The study was guided by four objectives namely to establish the extent to which hand washing influences infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital, Kisii County, to assess how waste segregation influences infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital, Kisii County, to determine the extent to which injection safety'influence infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital, Kisii County and to establish the extent to which provision of policies and guidelines influence infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital.
Four hypotheses were tested during the study namely; there is no significant relationship between hand washing and infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital, there is no significant relationship between waste segregation and infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital, there is no significant relationship between injection safety and infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital and there is no significant relationship between provision of policies and guidelines and infection prevention and control practices in Kisii Level Five Hospital. The study population will consisted of all staffs working in the clinical area of Kisii Level Five Hospital, Systematic sampling method was used to select the study subjects.
Two research instruments were used to collect data from the respondents; self-administered questionnaires were administered to 151 respondents and another ten respondents were subjected to an interview using the' interview schedule to gather more information. The research instruments were pretested in RAM hospital before actual data collection was done by administering 5 questionnaires to staff working in clinical area of the particular hospital. Reliability of the research instruments was tested and improved by use of test-retest method. The researcher applied for a research permit from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology before embarking on data collection.
Data will be collected by the researcher in person. Confidentiality of data collected was assured by ensuring that the research instruments remained anonymous. However, a questionnaire tracking form was used to facilitate collection of filled questionnaires thus improving the questionnaire return rate. Data collected from respondents was cleaned, coded and entered in to a computer. The questionnaire return rate was calculated. The data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics involving frequencies and percentages by use of SPSS (Statistical Package for social Scientists). The hypotheses were tested manually using the Chi-Square method. The information obtained was presented using tables from which recommendations and conclusions were derived. | en_US |
