Table 5 Practices of health care workers for protection from occupational exposure at first level care facilities in Sindh province of Pakistan 2004
Items | MBBS Prescriber | Non-MBBS Prescriber | Dispenser | Housekeeper | Overall | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Completed HBV vaccination | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
No | 7 | 16.7 | 14 | 63.6 | 96 | 57.8 | 2 | 22.2 | 119 | 49.8 |
Yes | 35 | 83.3 | 8 | 36.4 | 70 | 42.2 | 7 | 77.8 | 120 | 50.2 |
Wear gloves in procedure where possibility of blood/body fluid exposure | ||||||||||
Never | 15 | 37.5 | 11 | 52.4 | 82 | 50.3 | 3 | 50.0 | 111 | 48.3 |
Occasionally | 5 | 12.5 | 3 | 14.3 | 38 | 23.3 | 2 | 33.3 | 48 | 20.9 |
Most of the times | 13 | 32.5 | 4 | 19.0 | 16 | 9.8 | 1 | 16.7 | 34 | 14.8 |
Always | 7 | 17.5 | 3 | 14.3 | 27 | 16.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 37 | 16.1 |
Wear gown for procedures where possibility of blood/body fluid splash | ||||||||||
Never | 29 | 69.0 | 16 | 72.7 | 129 | 78.2 | 2 | 66.7 | 176 | 75.9 |
Occasionally | 11 | 26.2 | 5 | 22.7 | 23 | 13.9 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 16.8 |
Most of the times | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 4.5 | 5 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3.0 |
Always | 1 | 2.4 | 0 | 8 | 4.8 | 1 | 33.3 | 10 | 4.3 | |
Needle recap after use | ||||||||||
Always | 24 | 57.1 | 14 | 63.6 | 98 | 59.4 | 1 | 50.0 | 137 | 59.3 |
Most of the times | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 4.5 | 23 | 13.9 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 10.8 |
Occasionally | 2 | 4.8 | 3 | 13.6 | 16 | 9.7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9.1 |
Never | 15 | 35.7 | 4 | 18.2 | 28 | 17.0 | 1 | 50.0 | 48 | 20.8 |