International Journal of Clinical and Medical Cases Volume: 2.2 Open Access Journal Int J Clin Med Cases Volume: 2.2 1 ISSN 2517-7346 Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Hand Washing among Health Workers in Jugel Hospital Harar, East Ethiopia 2019 *Gosasye Teklehaymanot Zewde Department of Midwifery, Harar Health Science College, Harar, Ethiopia Article Information DOI: 10.31021/ijcmc.20192122 Article Type: Research Article Journal Type: Open Access Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Manuscript ID: IJCMC-2-122 Publisher: Boffin Access Limited Received Date: 11November 2019 Accepted Date: 02December 2019 Published Date: 14December 2019 Abstract Background Hand washing is the rubbing together of all surfaces and cleaning of the hands using a soap or chemical and water. Effective hand hygiene involves there moval of visible soiling and the reduction of microbial colonization of the skin. Nosocomial infections due to poor hand hygiene are a major cause of increasing morbidity, mortality, and health care costs among hospitalized patients worldwide. Therefore proper open hand washing practice is simple and an important method to prevent it however, about 50% of healthcare associated infections occur due to hand of health care providers Even though few institutions based studies were conducted in Ethiopia. Regarding hand washing knowledge, altitude and practice among health care workers there is no sufficient information in our study area. Therefore this study will try to fill the information gaps and used as a reference data for other researchers. Objectives To assess Knowledge, Attitude and hand washing practice of health workers in Jugel Hospital Harar, East Ethiopia in 2019. Method Institutional based cross-sectional study was employed on 125 health profession. Structured questionnaires was used for data collection, participant were selected by simple random sampling techniques. Training was given for data collectors and supervisor as well as Pretest and double data entry was made to assure quality of data. Collected data were entered to SPSS version 22.0 for analysis and result were presented in tables, bar graphs, pie charts. Result In these study the overall prevalence of good knowledge were 61%. Among the study 58.4% participant had positive attitude while 74.4% participant had good practice regarding hand hygiene. Conclusion and recommendation Overall KAP of health profession to ward hand hygiene is moderate, therefore provision of training, and enhancing hand washing tradition need to be stablishe. Introduction Background Hand washing is the rubbing together of all surfaces and cleaning of the hands using a soap or chemical and water. It should be performed after arriving at work, before leaving work, between client contacts, after removing gloves, when hands are visibly soiled, before eating, after excretion of body wastes (urination and defecation), after contact with body fluids, before and after performing invasive procedures, and after handling contaminated equipment [1]. World Health Organization (WHO) introduced “My five moments for hand washing” to minimize problems related to hand washing. These five moments that call for the use of hand washing include the moment before touching a patient, before performing aseptic and clean procedures, after being at risk of exposure to body fluids, after touching a patient, *Corresponding author: Gosasye Teklehaymanot Zewde Department of Midwifery Harar Health Science College Harar, Ethiopia E-mail: zewdegosa@yahoo.com Tel: +251 0913227450 Citation: Teklehaymanot Zewde G. Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and practice of Hand Washing among Health Workers in Jugel Hospital Harar, East Ethiopia 2019. Int J Clin Med Cases. 2019 Nov;2(2):123 Copyright: © 2019 Teklehaymanot Zewde G. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Keywords Hand Washing, Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Harar Town