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            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
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                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
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            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.15.1.28</article-id>
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                <article-title>Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) among Health Care Professionals Working in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital</article-title>
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                        <surname>Balu</surname>
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                        <surname>Somasunder</surname>
                        <given-names>Virudhunagar Muthuprakash</given-names>
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                        <surname>Deiva Suga</surname>
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                        <surname>Sivagananam</surname>
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                        <surname>Kanganda Bopaiah</surname>
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                        <surname> Chelladurai</surname>
                        <given-names>Udayakumari Meesala</given-names>
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                        <surname>Raj Kumar</surname>
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                        <surname>Sundharesan</surname>
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                        <surname>Krishnan</surname>
                        <given-names>Mythili</given-names>
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                    <name>
                        <surname>Kunasekaran</surname>
                        <given-names>Vahithamala</given-names>
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                        <surname>Kumaravel</surname>
                        <given-names>Kayalvizhi</given-names>
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                        <surname>Joy Manickaraj</surname>
                        <given-names>Rejili Grace</given-names>
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                        <surname>Veeraraghvan</surname>
                        <given-names>Vishnu Priya</given-names>
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                        <surname>Krishna Mohan</surname>
                        <given-names>Surapaneni</given-names>
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          <aff id="aff-1">Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Panimalar College of Nursing, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-2">Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-3">Department of Microbiology, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-4">Department of Clinical Skills and Simulation, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-5">Hospital Infection Control Nurse, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-6">Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, Panimalar College of Nursing, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-7">Department of Child Health Nursing, Panimalar College of Nursing, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-8">Department of Community Health Nursing, Panimalar College of Nursing, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-9">Department of Mental Health Nursing, Panimalar College of Nursing, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-10">Department of Biochemistry, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Saveetha University, Velappanchavadi, Chennai - 600 077, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			 <aff id="aff-11">Department of Biochemistry, Department of Clinical Skills and Simulation, and Department of Research, Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai - 600 123, Tamil Nadu, India.</aff>
			
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-02-18">
                <day>18</day>
				<month>02</month>
				<year>2021</year>
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            <volume>15</volume>
            <issue>1</issue>
            <fpage>335</fpage>
            <lpage>345</lpage>
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                <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://microbiologyjournal.org/assessment-of-knowledge-attitude-and-practice-on-prevention-of-catheter-associated-urinary-tract-infection-cauti-among-health-care-professionals-working-in-a-tertiary-care-teaching-hospital"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) is a common healthcare-related infection occurring in patients admitted for various ailments. Approximately 80% of hospital acquired Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are catheter associated. The purpose of the current research was to find out the level of knowledge, attitude and practice on prevention of CAUTI among healthcare professionals working in tertiary care hospital. A descriptive study was done among 95 health care working in tertiary care hospital in Chennai. The researchers administered standard questionnaire and statistically explored the knowledge, attitude, and practice levels about prevention of CAUTI among the participants. Among 95 participants, 28.4% and 71.6% of the individuals had moderately adequate knowledge and adequate knowledge about CAUTI. About 4.2% of the participants had unfavourable, 88.4% had moderately favourable and 7.4% had favourable attitude towards prevention of CAUTI. About 4.2% of the individuals had moderately adequate and 95.8% had adequate practice towards the prevention of CAUTI. There was significant correlation between attitude and practice. The professional experience of the participants showed statistically significant association with the level of practice among the demographic variables. In our present study, we found out that health care professionals had adequate knowledge, attitude, and practice on prevention of CAUTI. Medical education programs, frequent auditing with a checklist about catheter care must be conducted to maintain the achieved knowledge and practice levels.
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		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Knowledge</kwd>
        <kwd>Attitude</kwd>
		<kwd>Practice</kwd>
		<kwd>Health care professionals</kwd>
			<kwd>CAUTI</kwd>
			<kwd>Prevention</kwd>
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