Hepatitis B vaccine knowledge and vaccination status among health care workers of Bahir Dar City Administration, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Hepatitis B vaccine knowledge and vaccination status among health care workers of Bahir Dar City Administration, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
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DOI：
10.1186/s12879-015-0756-8
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发表时间：
2015-01-31
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3.7
通讯作者：
Azage, Muluken
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作者：
Abeje, Gedefaw;Azage, Muluken
背景：乙肝感染是埃塞俄比亚的一个主要公共卫生问题。医护人员因职业接触而感染乙肝的风险增加。有有效和安全的疫苗来预防乙肝感染。但发展中国家的许多医护人员没有接种疫苗。埃塞俄比亚没有一项研究描述卫生保健工作者的乙肝疫苗知识和接种状况。因此，本研究对埃塞俄比亚西北部巴赫达尔市政府医务人员的乙肝疫苗接种情况和知识知晓率进行了调查。方法：采用机构横断面研究设计，于2012年4月1日至30日进行。所有在巴赫达尔市政府卫生保健机构工作的医护人员都是研究对象。共有374名医护人员参与了这项研究。采用简单随机抽样技术从卫生保健工作者名单中选择符合条件的研究参与者。采用自填式问卷进行资料收集。调解人和首席调查员每天检查问卷的完整性。用社会科学16.0版软件进行统计分析。结果：64.7%的受访者认为自己感染乙肝的风险很高或很高。只有52%的受访者了解乙肝感染。在这项研究中，只有62%的医护人员了解乙肝疫苗。在370名调查对象中，只有20人(5.4%)表示接种过3剂及以上的乙肝疫苗。结论：该地区医务人员的乙肝疫苗接种状况较低。医护人员对乙肝感染和乙肝疫苗的知识也很低，因为所有医护人员都应该是有知识的。
Background: Hepatitis B infection is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Health care workers are at increased risk of acquiring hepatitis B infection due to occupational exposure. There is effective and safe vaccine against hepatitis B infection. But many health care workers in developing countries are not vaccinated. There is no study in Ethiopia that describes hepatitis B vaccine knowledge and vaccination status of health care workers. Therefore, this study was done to assess hepatitis B vaccination status and knowledge among health care workers' of Bahir Dar city administration, Northwest Ethiopia.Methods: Institution based cross sectional study design was employed from April 1 to 30, 2012. All healthcare workers who were working in Health care facilities of Bahir Dar city administration were the study populations. A total of 374 health care workers were included in the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select eligible study participants from the list of health care workers. Self administered questionnaire was used to collect data. The completeness of questionnaires was checked every day by facilitators and principal investigators. Data were entered and analyzed with statistical package for social sciences version 16.0 software.Result: In this study, 64.7% of respondents perceived their risk of acquiring hepatitis B infection very high or high. Only 52% of the respondents were knowledgeable about hepatitis B infection. In this study, only 62% of health care workers were knowledgeable about hepatitis B vaccine. From the total of 370 respondents, only 20(5.4%) reported that they took three or more doses of hepatitis B vaccine.Conclusion: Hepatitis B vaccination status of health care workers in the study area was low. Health care workers' knowledge about hepatitis B infection and hepatitis B vaccine was also low as all health care workers should be knowledgeable.