Background: COVID-19 is an international health emergency of global
concern. Physicians and nurses are more susceptible to COVID-19 infection.
Therefore, doctors and nurses on the front lines must have essential COVID-19
awareness, knowledge, and preparedness. Objectives: To assess awareness,
practices and preparedness level among healthcare workers at Benha university
hospital (BUH) to fight against Covid-19 and to inspect environmental
readiness. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Data were gathered
using questionnaire which were filled out by physicians and nurses. The
questionnaire included questions about respondents' demographics and 39
questions concerning knowledge, practices, preparedness and barriers. Overall,
175 physicians and 150 nurses had participated in the study. The observational
environmental checklist included 49 questions. Results: About 80.6% of
physicians and 71.3% of nurses show satisfactory score of knowledge about
Covid-19. About 70.9% of physicians had good score of practices while near
half of nurses (46%) had poor score of practices towards COVID-19. About
73.1% of physicians and 60% of nurses had adequate preparedness. There was
a significant variation between score of practices and preparedness of
physicians and nurses(p |
