A Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Fungal Infection Among MPH Workers in Selected Hospitals of Pune City.”

Abstract

Title: Fungal infections are the infections caused by fungi. These infections can affect various parts of the body, including the skin, nails, mouth. Fungi are common organisms that is found in the environment. Knowledge regarding fungal infection is important to understand the detection and to prevent complications.

Study title: A descriptive study is to assess knowledge regarding fungal infections among MPH workers.

Material and methods: Quantitative research approach was used. The population utilised for the study is MPH workers from the hospitals of Pune city. The sample size is 100. The sampling technique which is non-probability purposive sampling technique. The inclusion criteria includes the workers present at that time, who can read, write and understand English or Marathi. The exclusion criteria was for the people who having no education status or illiterate. The tool was finalised with the suggestions of 5 experts from Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be university) College of Nursing, Pune. In order to established reliability of the tool we used test-retest method. According to Karl-Pearson Correlation coefficient ‘r’ value obtained for the reliability was 0.73 which indicated that the tool is reliable. The pilot study was also conducted to assess the feasibility and utility.

Results: The study was conducted with 100 samples through self-structured demographic and questionnaires regarding assess the knowledge regarding fungal infection. The result revealed that 39% had average knowledge31% had poor knowledge, 28% had good knowledge and 2% had excellent knowledge.