The Survey of Personnel and Students Practice about Prevention of Blood and other Body Fluids.

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Abstract: Background: Numerous pathogens can be transmitted by exposure to blood and other body fluids. The most and important of illnesses are hepatitis B, hepatitis C and AIDS. Aids is developing in infected population specially in developing countries, so in Iran until day in 1380, 3430 HIV infected case were organized, 5% of world population and 3% of health care workers are HBV patients and more than of 170 million of world population and 3% of health care workers are HBV patients and more than of 170 million of world population and approximately 0.3% of Iran population are HCV patients therefore health care workers is exposed to human blood and other body fluids, and these factors are caused fetal and chronic diseases, thus health protect of these individuals is a necessary matter, and primary prevention of these diseases may be with compliance of preventive principles from blood and body fluids contact. Therefore perform of investigation with this title is seeing necessary. If the practice of these individuals was low probable causes should be studied with future investigations and amendments should be offered. Material and Method: This is a descriptive study which were observed the practice of 142 health care workers (17 specialists of obstetrics and gynecology, 25 residents of obstetrics and gynecology, 8 midwifes, 8 nurse's aide, 19 nurses and 65 midwifery students) in delivery room operating room and surgical –obstetrical wards in two women's medical educational centers of Tabriz. Stratified random sampling was used. Three checklist for three research places were provided. Descriptive statistics (frequencies, percent, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (chi square, fisher test, t test and ANOVA) were used for data analysis. Results: The study showed that the practice of personnel and students about prevention of blood and body fluids contact is high in 12% of individuals, mean in 62.6% and low in 25.4%. Results showed statistically significant difference between personnel and students practices with work (p<0.001), medical educational center (p=0.014), ward (p<0.002), age (p=0.049) and duration of working (p=0.044), but there weren't statistically significant difference between personnel and students practice with work shift, quality of surgery or delivery condition and course of midwifery students (p>0.05). Conclusion: Results of study showed that personnel and students practices about prevention of blood and other body fluids contact is well only in 12%. There for probable causes of this low rate should be considered as well as managers should provide educational programs about prevention of blood borne diseases, and should conducted health care workers' HBV vaccination and preparation of personnel protective equipment.