A study of contaminated sharp injury and associated morbidity among health care workers

Authors

  • Dharmendra Kumar Gupta Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Meenakshi Singh Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • V. K. Agarwal Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Sanjeev Sharma Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Saurabh Mishra Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20195851

Keywords:

Health care workers, Needle stick injury, Hepatitis B virus

Abstract

Background: Needles are one of the biomedical waste materials generated during the treatment or procedure in the hospital. Improper handling, capping or disposal technique causes a major health hazard among the health care workers (HCWs). Needle stick injuries (NSIs) can occur accidentally at any time when people use, disassemble, or dispose needle. The aim of the present study were to find out the burden of chronic morbid condition due to NSIs to HCWs, to find out various risk factors responsible for causing chronic disease to HCWs and to suggest the prevention and control of needle stick injury among the HCWs.

Methods: A cross-sectional study, conducted among HCWs. Sample size was estimated by using standard formula and 312 HCWs were taken in study. Equal number of respondent was taken from each group. The information has been collected and data entry has been done using specific software SPSS version 20.0.

Results: Most of the HCWs were infected with hepatitis B (24.0%) followed by hepatitis C virus (8.7%) and HIV (1.9%) after the percutaneous injuries with needle of infectious patients during any intervention procedures of the patients.

Conclusions: Occupational exposures to percutaneous injuries are substantial source of infections with blood borne pathogens among health-care workers because of the poor practice as well as not opting personal protective equipment’s during intervention process regarding preventive and control measures. These infections are highly preventable and should be eliminated.

Author Biographies

Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Associate Professor, Department of community medicine

Meenakshi Singh, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Professor and Head, department of community Medicine

V. K. Agarwal, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Professor and head, Department of Community Medicine

Sanjeev Sharma, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine

Saurabh Mishra, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Statistician cum Assistant Professor, Department of community Medicine

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2019-12-25

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Gupta, D. K., Singh, M., Agarwal, V. K., Sharma, S., & Mishra, S. (2019). A study of contaminated sharp injury and associated morbidity among health care workers. International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 7(1), 183–188. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20195851

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