| Summary: | Background: Waste Produced by the activities of the hospital can bring
out the high risk for health if can�t managed properly and correctly. The
especially infectious waste (15% until 25%) from total of waste produced
by the hospital. In Ibu dan Anak hospital Aceh Government still have
problems of mixing medical and non medical waste. Particularly infectious
medical waste is not managed properly. Separation of hazardous wastes
from all wastes at the site of waste is one key for good waste disposal and
this is strongly be affected by the behavior of health workers who work on
waste-producing unit in the hospital.
Goal: to know the relationship among knowledge, attitude, hospital policy
and availability of medical waste treatment facilities with behavioral of
health workers in handling of waste in Ibu dan Anak hospital Aceh
Government.
Method: the design of this study is observational using cross sectional
survey design with the total of respondents was 80 persons.
Result: there are positive and significant relationship of knowledge,
attitude, hospital policy and availability facility with behavioral of health
worker in the handling of waste (P<0.05) and low levels of closeness of
relationship.
Conclusions: attitude variables provide a very large effective contribution
(17.858%) against the behavior of health workers in the handling of
medical waste.
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