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Abstract

Health care practitioners are mainly responsible for promoting health, managing disorders and preventing complications among their clients and themselves. To do this, they have to be knowledgeable and must properly implement standard infection control practices. This study determined the relationship between level of knowledge and extent of implementation of infection control practices among the personnel of hospital facilities in Cebu. This research utilized the quantitative non-experimental descriptive-correlational design. This study was conducted at various tertiary hospital facilities in Cebu. The 500 respondents were hospital personnel rendering duty in any unit/area of the hospital during the data gathering procedure. The researchers utilized standardized questionnaires measuring the level of knowledge and the extent of infection control practices among hospital personnel in Cebu City government hospitals. The minitab version 13 statistical software was used in data processing. The results showed that most of the respondents were female nurses aged 20-35 years old and had worked for 1-5 years already. Additionally, the level of infection control cognition was very high, with proper implementation of infection control. The Pearson r correlation result illustrated that there was a low positive significant correlation between the level of knowledge and practices of infection control among the hospital personnel of hospital facilities in Cebu. It is then concluded that augmenting the level of knowledge of the health care practitioners can guarantee improvement of their practices in the area.

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