Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, College of Health Science, Debre Berhan University, P.O. Box 445, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Department of Environmental Health, Debre Berhan Health Science College, Debre Berhan, P.O. Box 37, Ethiopia.
J Environ Public Health. 2022 Feb 8;2022:8439076. doi: 10.1155/2022/8439076. eCollection 2022.
Personal protective equipment was designed to protect workers from serious workplace injuries or illnesses resulting from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. Use of personal protective equipment has been identified as an important hazard control strategy in work environments where it may not be practical to adopt other strategies.
To determine utilization and its associated factors based on health belief model among large scale factory workers in Debre-Birhan, Ethiopia.
An institution-based cross-sectional study was employed in Debre-Birhan Town, North Shoa Ethiopia, from April 1 to May 1, 2021. The data were collected by using an interviewer-administered structured questionnaire. A total of 412 samples were selected by systematic random sampling method. The data were entered to EpiData version 3.1 and analyzed by SPSS. All independent variables were fitted into the binary logistic regression model to evaluate the degree of association and variables with a value of <0.2 that was fitted for multiple logistic regressions. Finally, variables with a value of <0.05 was found to be statistically significant.
A total of 412 workers were study participants with 100% response rate. The mean age was 29 (±7.3) years. Most workers, 367 (89%) knew that PPE can prevent work-related injury and illness. Overall, 172 (41.7%) of the workers were considered to have good personal protective equipment utilization. Perceived susceptibility (AOR = 1.2, 95%, CI (1.076-1.38)), perceived severity (AOR = 1.1, 95%, CI (1.088-1.163)), perceived self-efficacy (AOR = 1.2, 95%, CI (1.082-1.349)), and perceived barrier (AOR = 0.87, 95%, CI (0.800-0.956)) were found to be significant predictors of good personal protective equipment utilization.
The study revealed that good personal protective equipment utilization in large-scale factory workers. Perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived barrier, and perceived self-efficacy were found to be predictors of PPE utilization. It is recommended that, during delivery of health education special emphasis should be given to severity, susceptibility, barrier, and self-efficacy of occupational disease.
个人防护设备旨在保护工人免受因接触化学、放射性、物理、电气、机械或其他工作场所危害而导致的严重工作场所伤害或疾病。在采用其他策略不切实际的工作环境中，使用个人防护设备已被确定为一种重要的危险控制策略。
根据健康信念模型，确定埃塞俄比亚德布雷伯汗大型工厂工人的个人防护设备使用情况及其相关因素。
2021 年 4 月 1 日至 5 月 1 日，在埃塞俄比亚北绍阿的德布雷伯汗镇，采用基于机构的横断面研究。通过使用访谈者管理的结构化问卷收集数据。采用系统随机抽样法抽取了 412 个样本。将数据输入 EpiData 版本 3.1，并使用 SPSS 进行分析。将所有自变量拟合到二元逻辑回归模型中，以评估关联程度，并将 值<0.2 的变量拟合到多逻辑回归中。最后，发现 值<0.05 的变量具有统计学意义。
共有 412 名工人作为研究参与者，应答率为 100%。平均年龄为 29（±7.3）岁。大多数工人（367 名，89%）知道 PPE 可以预防与工作相关的伤害和疾病。总的来说，有 172 名（41.7%）工人被认为个人防护设备使用情况良好。感知易感性（AOR=1.2，95%CI（1.076-1.38））、感知严重性（AOR=1.1，95%CI（1.088-1.163））、感知自我效能（AOR=1.2，95%CI（1.082-1.349））和感知障碍（AOR=0.87，95%CI（0.800-0.956））被发现是良好个人防护设备使用的显著预测因素。
研究表明，大型工厂工人个人防护设备的使用情况良好。感知易感性、感知严重性、感知障碍和感知自我效能被认为是 PPE 使用的预测因素。建议在提供健康教育时，特别关注职业病的严重性、易感性、障碍和自我效能。
