Surgical registrars knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding hospital disaster preparedness across 3 tertiary hospital in Gauteng

摘要

This study seeks to serve as a baseline survey of the knowledge, attitudes and practicesud(KAP) of surgical registrars concerning hospital disaster preparedness across 3 tertiaryudhospitals in Gauteng. This is owing to the fact that a perusal of the relevant literatureudreveals that while considerable research exists for the assessment of hospital disasterudpreparedness within an international context, there was a lack of information pertaining toudthe South African setting.udA stratified random sampling process was applied to 30 surgical registrars who were askedudto complete a self-administered questionnaire. Thus the study design was a cross sectionaluddescriptive study of the surgical registrars working across 3 tertiary hospitals in Gauteng.udA response rate of 83% was achieved. The study concluded that while 80% of surgicaludregistrars surveyed had an excellent level of knowledge about hospital disasterudpreparedness, only 52% of the respondents have positive attitudes towards hospital disasterudpreparedness. An overwhelming majority of the surgical registrars (84%) reported poorudpractices concerning hospital disaster preparedness.udThe findings of this study has lead to the following key recommendations being made: a)udthe need for a dedicated national hospital disaster preparedness fund, b) the provision ofudregular in-service training on hospital disaster preparedness with special attention beingudgiven to registrars with greater than 11 years of clinical experience c) need for hospitaluddisaster preparedness training to adhere to some form of quality control d) setting up of audtask team to conduct regular audits on the practices of hospitals in terms of disaster preparedness.