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Background: Nurses are health care professionals whose duty it is to protect patients from acquiring infections while hospitalized or while in a health care set up. By maintaining an infection free environment, the patient's recovery will be promoted, and high-quality nursing care will be delivered. Therefore, they should have a good level of understanding of the knowledge and attitude prevention and control of infection in health care setup. The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurses regarding infection prevention and control.
Objective: The objectives were to determine The Knowledge and Attitude of nurses in infection prevention and control within a hospital.
Method: A quantitative descriptive study was conducted at a Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore from January 2026 to April 2026. Sample: A Stratified random sampling was performed. A total of n= 200 nurses of all categories (70% from each category) were recruited in the study. Tools of data collection: a self-developed validated close-ended questionnaire guided byhospitalpolicies, procedure standards, for infection prevention and control, was used to collect data. Data were collected on demographics variables, knowledge and attitude using descriptive statistics. Data analysis was performed by SPSS, including descriptive analysis and chi-square tests.
Results: During the main study, n= 200 questionnaires were distributed, n= 200 participants are completed the questionnaires, a response rateof 100. Most of the participants were female; 84.7% (n= 170) while 15.3 % (n= 30) were male. Most participants had good knowledge in infection prevention and control with the mean score of 83.21. The attitude towards infection prevention and control was good with the mean score of 81.37. The practice in infection prevention and control was poor with the mean score of 45.5%.
Conclusions: Based on the findings of the current study, it can be concluded that, despite performing well in knowledge and showing a positive attitude towards infection prevention and control, nurses had unsatisfactory practice levels regarding infection prevention and control, exposing the patients to infection-related diseases.