Nurses’ perception and compliance with personal protective equipment and hand hygiene during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association

Table 4 Multivariate logistic regression analysis of independent predictors of good compliance with PPE, hand hygiene, and IPC measures among nurses at Alexandria Main University Hospital, 2021 (n=354)

Independent predictors	Coefficient	Adjusted OR^a	95% CI	P value
Woman gender	1.371	3.938	(0.72, 21.5)	0.114
Higher educational level	0.166	1.181	(0.45, 3.04)	0.731
History of COVID-19 disease	-0.030	0.970	(0.46, 2.03)	0.937
Colleague or relative had COVID-19 disease	-0.890	0.411	(0.02, 7.19)	0.542
Working at surgical and emergency departments	0.101	1.107	(0.54, 2.26)	0.781
Working > 8 h per day	0.519	1.680	(0.55, 5.04)	0.355
Shift work	0.267	1.306	(0.47, 3.59)	0.605
Receiving training on PPE usage & hand hygiene	0.048	1.050	(0.38, 2.88)	0.925
Age	-0.003	0.997	(0.94, 1.09)	0.889
Knowledge	1.262	3.532	(2.40, 5.19)	<0.001^***
Perception	0.229	1.257	(1.13, 1.39)	<0.001^***

Model X² =82.48 (p<0.001); Nagelkerke’s R²=0.368; Cox & Snell R²= 0.222; Hosmer & Lemeshow X²=6.96 (p=0.541)
Abbreviations: PPE Personal protective equipment, IPC Infection prevention and control, OR Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval. ***p<0.001
^aOR adjusted for all variables in the above table