Conhecimento do estudante de medicina sobre precauções padrão e controle de infecção relacionada à assistência à saúde

Abstract

Introduction: Healthcare-related infections (HAI) are among the most common adverse events and are a global health challenge. Doctors are among the professionals who are least adherent to infection prevention measures and one reason is inadequate medical training. Objective: To test whether medical students have sufficient knowledge about the basics of healthcare-related infections. Design: Survey-type study that consisted of applying a questionnaire on the notions of HAI to medical students in the 5th and 6th year of the course. Method: 129 students answered the yes / no question questionnaire, which is divided into three areas of knowledge: nosocomial infection (NI), standard precautions (SP) and hand hygiene (HH), with a total of 25 points. The predominant way in which knowledge was obtained was also asked. Appropriate knowledge for each area was considered to be 70% or more of correct answers. Observing this cutoff point, the minimum score was 3.5 for NI; 8.4 for SP; 5.6 for HH and 17.5 on the total score. Results: Medical students achieved the minimum expected score on HAI notions. (Total score: 19.37 ± 1.63). However, they underperformed the HH area (Mean: 4.96 ± 1.06) and the difference between it and the other areas was statistically significant (p <0.001). Conclusion: Although medical training is apparently sufficient about the notions of healthcare-related infections (HAI), there are weaknesses in basic concepts. Ignorance of fundamental issues in infection prevention may be related to the doctors' poor adherence to HAI prevention measures