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Document 0717
DOCN M9640717
TI AIDS: awareness and blood handling practices of health care workers in
Lagos, Nigeria.
DT 9604
AU Odujinrin OM; Adegoke OA; Department of Community Health, College of
Medicine, University; of Lagos, Nigeria.
SO Eur J Epidemiol. 1995 Aug;11(4):425-30. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96058559
AB A questionnaire survey of 260 health care workers from 13 randomly
selected health care facilities was undertaken. Their knowledge,
attitude, belief and blood handling practices regarding HIV/AIDS were
enquired about. Virtually all (99.0%) respondents had heard about AIDS
but only 57.0% had seen an AIDS patient before. Although 83.0% knew that
AIDS is caused by a virus, a high proportion still confuses mode of
transmission with causative agent. Deficient knowledge was exhibited
when asked about groups of people who were at a higher risk of
contracting HIV and AIDS: Only 54.6% and 51.5% identified homosexuals
and i.v. drug users as being at a higher risk. Almost all (97.0%) of our
respondents claimed to have been more careful in their blood handling
practices since the emergence of AIDS, 68.5% wore gloves for all
procedures involving handling of blood and 28.5% sometimes although as
many as 30.4%, 40.4% and 18.1% do not wear gloves for cleaning up blood
stained materials, nursing procedures and taking obstetric delivery
respectively. It was evident from their responses that not all the
health workers knew the correct method for disposing of used
bloodstained instruments and left-over blood samples and neither were
they all adhering to the safety guidelines recommended for handling
these materials. Education of all health care workers in Nigeria on the
Universal Precautions Guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) in 1987 regarding blood, body fluids and contaminated
instruments' handling precautions is urgently recommended.
DE *Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION &
CONTROL/TRANSMISSION *Blood Specimen Collection/STANDARDS/TRENDS
*Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional Female *Health
Personnel Human *Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Logistic Models Male
Nigeria Risk Assessment Universal Precautions JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).