To Study of Relationship between Personal -social Characteristics with the Size of Mantoux Test Indurations in Nurses, Tabriz, 1997.

Abstract

Abstract: Objective: Relationship between personal-social characteristics with the size of mantoux test indurations in nurses. Design: This research is a descriptive study. Methods of data gathering are through questionnaire containing 41 questions related to nurses’ personal social characteristics and observation of mantoux test induration. Setting: The fields of this study are two teaching hospitals of Tabriz Medical Science University. Participants: 133 nurses with more than 6 months of work history in one of two teaching hospitals of Tabriz Medical Science University. Results: Results of this study, mostly using descriptive and analytic statistics were brought in 2 figures and 66 tables. According to the findings, size of mantoux test induration in 61.65% of nurses were more than 10 mm, 26.31%, between 0-5 mm and 12.3% were 6-10 mm. In order to determining relations between personal social characteristics with mantoux test induration, it has been cleared that there is statistical meaningful relations between some personal social variables with size of mantoux test induration among nurses. Such variables includes: age, sex, marriage status, race, duration of work in hospital (years), kind of duty time (only morning or circular shifts), ward, quality of family income, size of mantoux test induration in previous tests, housing condition, history of smoking and type of hospitals. Conclusion: Referring to nurse’s role in hospitals and other settings, and their most probable exposure with patients, they are at high risk from aspect of contamination with mycobacterium tuberculosis. Since nurse’s infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis may be more dangerous than other infected sources to co-workers and other population groups, ensuring their health and wellbeing’s is important. The findings of this study can be useful in country health plans to prevent and control of nurses infection to mycobacterium tuberculosis.