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Safety Precautions and Operating Procedures in an ABSL-4 Laboratory: 2. General Practices
Published on: October 3, 2016
Knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of 'teaching laboratory' technicians towards laboratory safety and waste
A-H El-Gilany1, S El-Shaer1, E Khashaba2
1Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
Abstract:
A quasi-experimental study was performed on 20 technicians working in the Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt. The knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of laboratory technicians was measured before and two months after enrolling them in an intervention programme about laboratory best practice procedures. The programme addressed laboratory safety and medical waste management. The assessment was performed using a validated Arabic self-administered questionnaire. Pre- and post-intervention scores were compared using non-parametric tests. There are significant increases in the scores of KAP after implementation of the training programme.
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