Analysis Of Infection Control Of Labor Room During Covid 19 Pandemic In Tangerang City Public Health Centres

Abstract

Health workers are susceptible to contracting the Coronavirus, and this is due to nosocomial infections.
Birth attendants must take good care of infection prevention. This study aims to analyze the infection
control of the labor room during the COVID 19 pand emic at Tangerang City Public Health Center. This
research is a quantitative analytic study with a cross sectional approach. The sample is all midwives who
work in the delivery room of the Tangerang City Public Health Center with a total of 101 with a tota l
sampling technique. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics using the chi square
test. The results showed that 21.8% of midwives experienced covid 19 infection, 82.2% of midwives
performed a good handwashing procedure, 76.2% of mi dwives used Personal Protective Equipment
PPE properly, 89.1%, midwives performed good equipment decontamination , 1% of midwives
performed good waste management , and 53.5% of midwives stated that they did not h ave a delivery
chamber. There was a relat ionship between handwashing procedures (p = 0,000), the use of PPE (p =
0,000), equipment decontamination (p = 0,000) and waste management (p = 0.005) with covid 19
infection. The re was no relationship between the delivery chamber (p = 1,000) and the incid ence of
COVID 19 infection. Health workers are expected to make good infection prevention and control effort s
to prevent infec tion from the Covid 19 pandemic.