SDCA Journal of Radiologic Technology

Abstract

Hospitals are one of the mostly challenged industries with this ongoing pandemic because of overwhelming volume of patients who seek medical treatment against COVID-19 plus the facts of other known diseases that also need a medical intervention. In fact, during the early phase of COVID-19, the use of Computed Tomography (CT) scan machine and Xray machine were very much appreciated as a correlation with other medical testing results to identify if the patient is a COVID-19 positive or not. With that, the researchers would like to determine what are the infections controls being performed inside of the radiology department to help in lessening the chances of COVID-19 transmission. By using the nonprobability convenience sampling method, the researchers were able to accumulate a total population of fifty (50) radiographers coming from different hospitals in Manila. This study used a 4-point Likert scale with 4 = always practiced, 3 = often practiced, 2 = seldom practiced, and 1 = not practiced that served as the landmarks when they answered the self-made questionnaire that was divided into two major parts: Profile of the respondents and Infection Control Practices consisting of 15 questions. Results shows that the respondents generally “always practiced” the different infection controls against COVID-19 transmission having a weighted mean of “3.57”. Meanwhile, there was a significant differences in the infection control when grouped according to the gender and hospital classification. The probability value of 0.028 and 0.016 respectively were lesser than the 0.05 significance level.

Keywords: COVID-19 transmission, infection control practices, X-ray department, radiographers.