This study investigated the knowledge of COVID-19, infection control fatigue, and stress level of medical institution workers working in small and medium hospitals, and identified factors that influence the performance of infection control with the research on 137 employees working in small and medium hospitals.
Research results showed the knowledge of COVID-19 of healthcare workers was a 65.5% correct rate, an average of 45.04 points out of 60 points for infection control performance, and an average of 66.4 points and 63.46 points respectively out of 100 points for infection control fatigue and stress. The level of knowledge about COVID-19 was significantly different depending on age and marriage, and infection control performance was significantly different depending on age, marriage, infection control education experience.
Infection control fatigue and stress were different depending on the infection control education experience, economic and social prejudice and fear of discrimination. There are positive correlations between knowledge and infection control performance, between infection control performance and infection control fatigue, and between infection control performance and infection control stress(p〈.001). It was verified that factors affecting the performance of infection control include knowledge of 'environmental management', 'difficulties due to new role requirements', presence or absence of infection education experience, job type, and age.
Based on the results of this study, we suggest that various intervention studies are required to improve infection control performance of medical institutions workers engaged in small and medium hospitals, and measures to reduce fatigue of medical institutions workers are needed based on infection control performance.