Radiation safety awareness among Medical Health Professsionals in a Hybrid Operating Theater (CIGMIT) of Universiti Malaya Medical Centre

This study was carried out with the purpose to identify relationships between independent variables and Radiation Safety Awareness among health professionals in University Malaya Medical Centre. Therefore, health professionals’ knowledge regarding radiation and their healthy behaviour/attitude during work time and management commitment was evaluated by a questionnaire. Data was collected using a close ended questionnaire and was analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 20.0 software. The study group included a total of 150 individuals. The research was conducted using close-end questionnaire which encompass a set of questions divided into five parts concerning demographics, radiation safety awareness, knowledge, behaviour/attitude and management commitment. Findings shows that that knowledge of health professional and management commitment have a significant effect on radiation safety awareness, whereas behaviour/attitude has no significant effect on radiation safety awareness. As a conclusion all health professionals should be evaluated, and training programs should be scheduled. In addition, there is a need for mandatory improved education and training of all health professionals in principals of radiation safety to ensure compliance with radiation safety regulations. For future research, a higher number of respondents and hospitals will be more significant and could produce more distinct results.