The health beliefs of hospital staff and the reporting of needlestick injury

Tabak, Nili; Shiaabana, Amal Musaa; Shasha, Shaul M.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01423.x

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“…27 In a study in Iran, 49.6% of healthcare workers had needlestick injuries within the last year; 25 whereas in Tel Aviv, 65.9% of the HCPs had needlestick injuries during their past professional experience. 28 In a study in Egypt, 35.6% of the health care personnel was exposed to at least one needlestick injury during the past three months. 29 The universal precautions guidelines are the major way to protect healthcare workers against bloodborne diseases.…”

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Improving Knowledge and Attitudes of Health Care Providers Following Training on HIV/AIDS Related Issues: A Study in an Urban Turkish Area

Köse¹,

Mandıracıoğlu²,

Kaptan³

et al. 2012

Turkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci

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A AB BS ST TR RA AC CT T O Ob bj je ec ct ti iv ve e: : The objective of the study was to assess HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitudes and risk perception among health care providers in İzmir. M Ma at te er ri ia al l a an nd d M Me et th ho od ds s: : A pretest and posttest patterned intervention study was conducted in 2007 among health care providers participating in a training course on HIV/AIDS and universal precautions. The participants consisted of 158 health care professionals from 7 public hospitals and 2 public dental clinics. Information was collected regarding demographic details, HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about patients at the beginning and the end of the course. Pre-and post-training dichotomous point scale scores were compared. R Re es su ul lt ts s: : Of the participants, 72.6 % were females. Only 30.0 % of the respondents reported a scalpel or needle stick injury at least once last year. Some of the participants (40%) thought that it was necessary to take extra infection control precautions for patients with HIV. The average pre-and post-training mean knowledge scores were 9.32 ± 2.1 (3-13) and 12.76 ± 2.3 (5-17), respectively. The mean pre-and post-training beliefs scores were 12.37 ± 3.1 (3-19) and 15.57± 3.8 (6-22), respectively. There were significant differences in the pre-and post-training mean scores of the responses related to attitudes toward patients with AIDS. C Co on nc cl lu us si io on n: : There was improvement in knowledge and negative attitudes on patients with AIDS at the end of the training. The results of this study suggested that the negative attitudes of health care providers towards individuals with AIDS due to the fear of transmission and inadequate knowledge could be improved with training.K Ke ey y W Wo or rd ds s: : Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; attitude; HIV; training; knowledge; health personnel Ö ÖZ ZE ET T A Am ma aç ç: : Çalışmanın amacı, İzmir'deki sağlık çalışanlarında HIV/AIDS ile ilgili bilgi, tutum ve risk algısını değerlendirmektir. G Ge er re eç ç v ve e Y Yö ön nt te em ml le er r: : 2007 yılında HIV/AIDS ve genel önlemler ile ilgili bir eğitime katılan sağlık çalışanlarında ön test ve son test şeklinde girişimsel bir çalışma yapılmıştır. Katılımcılar 7 kamu hastanesi ve 2 kamu diş kliniğinde çalışan 158 sağlık çalışanından oluşmaktadır. Kursun başında ve sonunda, demografik detaylar, HIV/AIDS ile ilgili bilgi, tutum ve hastalara ilişkin algılar hakkında bilgi toplanması amacıyla anket uygulanmıştır. Katılımcıların bu dikotom puanlı (0 ve 1) anketten, eğitimden önce ve sonra aldıkları puanlar karşılaştırılmıştır. B Bu ul lg gu ul la ar r: : Katılımcıların %72,6'sı kadındır. Yanıt verenlerin %30'u geçen yıl en az bir kez bistüri veya iğne ile yaralanmaya maruz kaldığını bildirmiştir. Katılımcıların %40'ı HIV pozitif hastalar için ek enfeksiyon kontrol önlemleri almak gerektiğini düşünüyorlardı. AIDS/HIV ile ilgili ortalama bilgi puanı, kursun sonunda, başlangıca göre istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı bir şekilde daha yüksek sapta...

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Improving Knowledge and Attitudes of Health Care Providers Following Training on HIV/AIDS Related Issues: A Study in an Urban Turkish Area

Köse¹,

Mandıracıoğlu²,

Kaptan³

et al. 2012

Turkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci

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“…Perceived susceptibility to diseases did not modify reporting rates, although professionals who reported accidents showed higher perceived severity levels of diseases that can be transmitted after exposure to biological material [12].…”

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“…As for the professional category, it was evidenced that nurses not only reported their accidents involving biological material more frequently, but also tended to adopt safer work practices and were more likely to follow protocols and guidelines in their clinical practice [10]. Elmiyeh, Whitaker, James, et al [11] and Tabak, Shiaabana and Shasha [12] detected higher underreporting rates among physicians and explained that those professionals could be more inclined to assess their own risk before they decided to report, as they could request serology tests themselves and knew more about the nature of the lesion and the patient's serological condition.…”

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Under-Reporting of Accidents Involving Biological Material by Nursing Professionals at a Brazilian Emergency Hospital

Facchin

Gir

Pazin‐Filho

et al. 2013

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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“…A second possible explanation can be found in the health belief model, a psychological model evaluating behavior using the 3 constructs of threat perception, benefit perception, and perceived disadvantage. 8 Per hospital protocol, HCWs exposed to known HIV or HCV patients received consultation with infectious diseases specialists who perform a review of source patient infectivity, including a review of source patient viral suppressive therapy and viral load (data unavailable to the hospital occupational medicine clinic). It is possible that follow-up compliance may be affected by an HCWs low-perceived susceptibility following delivery of these data during specialist assessment; however, the deidentified data source utilized for this study prevented retrospective record review to explore such a hypothesis.…”

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Health care worker follow-up compliance after occupational bloodborne pathogens exposure: A brief report

Díaz

Johnson

2016

American Journal of Infection Control

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The health beliefs of hospital staff and the reporting of needlestick injury

Cited by 45 publications

References 31 publications

Improving Knowledge and Attitudes of Health Care Providers Following Training on HIV/AIDS Related Issues: A Study in an Urban Turkish Area

Improving Knowledge and Attitudes of Health Care Providers Following Training on HIV/AIDS Related Issues: A Study in an Urban Turkish Area

Under-Reporting of Accidents Involving Biological Material by Nursing Professionals at a Brazilian Emergency Hospital

Health care worker follow-up compliance after occupational bloodborne pathogens exposure: A brief report

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