Kebede Awoke, Gerensea Hadgu
School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences and Referral Hospital, AKsum University, Axum, Ethiopia.
BMC Res Notes. 2018 Jun 28;11(1):413. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3529-9.
Nurses are exposed to dangerous and deadly blood borne pathogens through contaminated needle stick injuries. This study was designed to assess prevalence of needle stick injury and its associated factors among nurses working in hospitals. Institution-based cross-sectional study design was used among 258 randomly selected nurses. Collected data was entered into Epi-Data version 3.1 and transferred to SPSS Version 20.0 for analysis. The degree of variables were assessed using adjusted odds ratio and its 95% confidence interval with P value (< 0.05).
Eighty-nine (34.5%) nurses self-reported receiving a needle stick injury in the previous 12 months. Work experience, working hour, personal protective, infection prevention guide line utilization and infection prevention training were significantly associated to needle stick injury.
The needle stick injury in this study area was prevalent. The contributing factors to the injury were duration of working hours, experience, use of personal protective equipment and training.
护士会因被污染的针刺伤而接触到危险且致命的血源性病原体。本研究旨在评估医院护士针刺伤的发生率及其相关因素。采用基于机构的横断面研究设计，对258名随机选取的护士进行了研究。收集的数据录入Epi-Data 3.1版本，并传输至SPSS 20.0版本进行分析。使用校正比值比及其95%置信区间和P值（<0.05）评估变量的程度。
八十九名（34.5%）护士自我报告在过去12个月内曾有过针刺伤。工作经验、工作时长、个人防护、感染预防指南的使用以及感染预防培训与针刺伤显著相关。
本研究区域的针刺伤情况普遍。导致针刺伤的因素包括工作时长、经验、个人防护设备的使用和培训。
