ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Surg.
Sec. Visceral Surgery
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2025.1571033
THE BURDEN OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG PATIENTS ADMITTED AT SURGICAL WARD AT RESOURCE LIMITED COUNTRY: INSTITUTIONAL BASED CROSSECTIONAL STUDY
Provisionally accepted
Simachew Zewdu Temie1
Abel Daniel Kuche1*
Amene Abebe Kerbo2Zinabu Abraham Darcho1Hailu Elias Moliso1.Adamu Belete Genet3- 1School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences and Medicine, Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Ethiopia
- 2School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences and Medicine, Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
- 3Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
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Background: SSIs are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It’s the most common type of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and it contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance, which can lead to life-threatening diseases. So this study aims to depict the burden of SSI and to determine associated factors of it among post operative patients at a surgical ward in resource limited set up. Study was done at Wolaita Sodo Comprehensive Specialized Teaching Hospital over post operative patient from march 1,2022- july 30,2023. Systematic random sampling was employed. Data management and statistical analysis were performed using SPSS version 25. Adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence interval was used to measure association between dependent and independent variables. P-value <0.05 was used to declare the level of significance. Result: This study included overall 309 patients, and 198 (64.1%) were male. Average age of the participant is 42 and participants more than 42 years old are 156 (50.5%), and residence was explored as rural for 236 (84.6%). The magnitude of surgical site infection was found to be 29.1%. Predisposing factors for surgical site infection include male sex (AOR -4.9; 95%; 2.0-11.3), drainage use (AOR -4.46; 95%; 1.9-10.3), and abdominal surgery (AOR-4.3; 95%; 1.3-14.1), whereas protective factors included younger female sex, elective surgery, and surgery duration less than 2 hours.
Keywords: Surgical site infection, Surgical ward, Burden, resource limited set up, factors
Received: 04 Feb 2025; Accepted: 29 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Temie, Kuche, Kerbo, Darcho, Moliso and Genet. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Abel Daniel Kuche, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences and Medicine, Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Ethiopia
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