Title: Practice of Universal Precaution among Health Care Providers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Tripura: A Cross- Sectional Study
Authors: Dr Rituparna Das, Dr Arpita Debnath, Dr Paramita Barman
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v8i2.72
Abstract
Health care providers are at risk of blood borne infections as an occupational hazard. This can be prevented by adequate practice of universal precaution.
Objective: 1. To estimate the practice of universal precaution among health care providers 2. To assess the barriers of universal precaution practice among health care providers. 3.To study the factors associated with practice of universal precaution.
Material and Method: This was a hospital based cross- sectional study conducted among 180 health care providers during March, 2018 at Agartala Government Medical College and G.B.P. Hospital, Agartala. Stratified random sampling procedure was used to select the participants and a scoring system was used to assess the practice of universal precaution.
Results: The present study revealed that 13.4%participants were having good practice of Universal precaution, 67% participants were having average practice, 19.6% having poor practice regarding universal precaution. Majority of the participants could not comply with Universal Precautions due to increased work load (78.4%), followed by Emergency cases (65.6%).Occupation and work experience were found as significant determinants of universal precaution practice (p value- <0.05).
Conclusion: The Overall Practice of universal precaution was not satisfactory. Training programmesfor the health-care providers to update the existing knowledge, better work place managementcan help in having a positive attitude and compliance to universal precaution.
Keywords: Universal precaution, Practice, Health-care providers.
References
1. World Health Organization. The word health report 2002: reducing rsks, promoting health life. World Health Organization, Geneva.
2. Solanky P, Baria H, Nerulkar A, Chavda N. Knowledge and practice of universal precautions among nursing staff at a tertiary care hospital in South Gujarat, India. Int J Community Med Public Health 2016;3:2373-6
3. Kermode M, Jolley D, Langkham B, Thomas MS, Holmes W, Gifford SM. Compliance with Universal Precautions among health care workers in rural north India. Am J Infect Control 2005;33:27-33.
4. Wu S, Li L, Wu Z, Cao H, Lin C, Yan Z, et al. Universal precautions in the era of HIV/AIDS: Perception of health service providers in Yunnan, China. AIDS Behav 2008;12:806-14
5. Swati Singh, A. K Malhotra, Santosh K. Verma, Rashmi Yadav, Shubhanshu Gupta A Study on Prevalence of Practice of Universal Precautions Among Health Care Workers in Medical College, Jhansi (U.P) International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS), 2015, Vol 2,No.9,121-124. Available online at http://www.ijims.com ISSN: 2348 – 0343
6. Chaudhuri S, Baidya OP, Singh TG. Universal precaution: practice among doctors in a tertiary care hospital in Manipur. Int J Res Med Sci 2016;4:606-9.
7. Mukherjee S, Bhattacharyya A, Sharma Sarkar B, Goswami DN, Ghosh S, Samanta A. Knowledge and practice of standard precautions and awareness regarding post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV amonginterns of a medical college in West Bengal, India. Oman Med J. 2013;28(2):141-5.
8. Jawaid M, Iqbal M, Shahbaz S. Compliance with standard precautions: A long way ahead. Iranian J Publ Health. 2009;38(1):85-8.
9. Tobin EA, Asogun DA, Odia I, Ehidiamhen G. Knowledge and practice of infection control among health workers in a tertiary hospital in Edo state, Nigeria. Direct Research Journal of Health and Pharmacology (DRJHP). November 2013; 1 (2): 20-27.
10. Obi IE, Agunwa CC, Omotowo BI, Azuike EC, Ndu AC, Umeobieri AK. The Practice of Universal Precautions among Health Workers in South East Nigeria: What Factors Matter. Int. J. Med. Health. Dev. 2017; 22(1): 45-53.