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The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding biomedical waste management among healthcare workers and explore barriers to compliance.

July 11, 2026Discover Public HealthOpen Access

A sequential explanatory study on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of biomedical waste management among healthcare workers using a Kirkpatrick framework

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PKPoonam KushwahaIntegral University NDN.J. DamRama University SSSaket ShekharAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur

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Sequential explanatory study assesses knowledge, attitudes, and practices in healthcare workers, indicating barriers to compliance.

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The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding biomedical waste management among healthcare workers and explore barriers to compliance.
Sequential explanatory study conducted at a tertiary hospital with 250 healthcare workers surveyed.
Qualitative phase involved 12 semi-structured interviews for thematic analysis.
Data analyzed descriptively for quantitative and through content analysis for qualitative findings.
High awareness: 97.2% understood BMW rules; 98.0% recognized color-coding.
Only 68.4% used full PPE and 71.1% used hub-cutters, indicating practice gaps.
Self-reported compliance impacted by systemic barriers such as understaffing and lack of supervision.

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Kushwaha et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a51df9fc18d7f28ca500860 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-026-02566-x

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