The situation awareness of health workers about needlestick and sharp injuries at hospital

Authors

  • - Kusbaryanto Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta
  • - Listiowati Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v20i4.54133

Keywords:

education, situation awareness, needlestick and sharp objects, health workers

Abstract

Background: The nosocomial infection occurs in patients who are under medical treatments in hospitals or other health facilities, which has not yet occurred at the time of admission. This infection can occur as delivering treatments for other diseases; and even after the patients has returned from the hospital.The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of an education about the danger of needlestick to the situational awareness of health workers regarding the needlestick and sharp injuries in hospitals.

Method: This study is a quasi-experiments with pretest and post-test control group design. The samples of this study was collected using purposive sampling with 98 respondents in the experiment group and 29 respondents in the control group. The data were analyzed by Wilcoxon and Independent sample T test. Meanwhile, the data were collected by questionnaires.

Result: The measurement results of the situation awarenessin the control group, mean is 45.31, and SD is 3.57; in the treatment group, mean is 46.77, and SD is 4.04.The differences of the situation awareness of needlestick and sharp objects in the control group, before and after education, is p = 0.981 (> 0.05); the result is not significant. The differences of the situation awareness of needlestick and sharp objects in the treatment group, before and after education, is p = 0.001 (<0.05); the result is significant. The differences of the situation awareness in control group and treatment group, after education, is p = 0.001 (<0.05); the result is significant.

Conclution: The education about the prevention of needlestick and sharp objects on health workers is effective to raise the situation awareness about the danger of needlestick and sharp objects in health workers in hospitals.

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.20(4) 2021 p.774-778

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Published

2021-06-18

How to Cite

Kusbaryanto, .-., & Listiowati, .-. (2021). The situation awareness of health workers about needlestick and sharp injuries at hospital. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science, 20(4), 774–778. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v20i4.54133

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 4 (2021)

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Original Articles

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