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‘A study to assess the effectiveness of clinical teaching programme on knowledge regarding needle stick injury and its safety measures among health care professionals in NMCH Jamuhar, Rohtas’

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“A study to assess the effectiveness of clinical teaching programme on knowledge regarding needle stick injury and its safety measures among health care professionals in NMCH Jamuhar, Rohtas”.

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Needle stick injuries are most common among health care professionals because they are always using the sharp instruments and needle for patient care. Needle stick injury is the penetration of skin by hypodermic needle or sharp objects that has been contact with blood or body tissue. Needle stick injuries are frequently occurring in health care settings which leads to serious complications like Hep B, Hep C and HIV. In India, around 3–6 billion injections are given per year, in which two-thirds of injections are unsafe (62.9%) and the use of glass syringes are constantly associated with a higher degree of unsafeness. Worldwide, about 3 million of HCWs were exposed to bloodborne pathogens through Percutaneous injury, in which two million were exposed to HBV, 0.9 million were exposed to HCV, and 170,000 were exposed to HIV of which more than 90% occurred in developing countries. Awareness and prevention of NSI is an integral part of prevention programme in the work place and training of HCWs regarding safety practices. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY: -To assess the knowledge regarding NSI and its safety measures among health care professionals. To administer the clinical teaching programme on NSI and its safety measures among health care professionals. To assess the effectiveness of clinical teaching programme on knowledge regarding NSI and its safety measures among health care professionals. To find out the association between post-test level of knowledge score with selected socio demographic variables.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study quantitative research approach was used and the research design was one group pre-test and post-test design is chosen for conducting this study, where there is no randomization and control group. The setting of the study was Narayan Medical College and Hospital, Jamuhar, Rohtas. In this design 60 subjects were selected by using convenience sampling technique. The target population comprises of all the health care professionals like nursing officer, lab technician, ward attendant and sanitary workers. Structured questionnaire was prepared containing a set of 20 questions, were asked by the sample. The investigator collected the data from the health care professionals, who working in NMCH, Jamuhar, Rohtas. The Pretest was conducted and then clinical teaching programme intervention was given to sample after 5 days post test was conducted from the sample by the investigator. RESULTS: -About 6.7 % of the health care professionals of the age group less than 20 years, 56.7 % of the age group 21- 30 years, 23. 3 % of the age group 31-40 years, and 13.3% of the age group more than 40 years. About 60% of the health care professionals were male and 40% of the health care professionals were female. About 45% of the health care professionals are undergraduate, no one health care professionals are graduated, 8.3% of the health care professionals are paramedical, 46.7% of the health care professionals are nursing. About 46.7% of the health care professionals are nursing officer, 8.3% of the health care professionals are lab technician, 15% of the health care professionals are ward attendant and 30% of the health care professionals are sanitary workers. About 48.33% of the health care professionals having monthly income below 15,000, 51.67% of the health care professionals are having 16,000-25,000 monthly income, no one health care professionals are having the 26,000-35,000 monthly income and no one health care professionals are having more than 36,000 monthly incomes. About 70% of the health care professionals are having less than 5 years’ work experience, 16.7% of the health care professionals are having the 6-10 years’ work experience, 11.7% of the health care professionals are having the 11-15 years’ work experience and 1.67% of the health care professionals are having the more than 15 years’ work experience. About 53.33% of the health care professionals are exposed with NSI and 46.67% of the health care professionals are not exposed with NSI. About 71.67% of the health care professionals are completed the hepatitis B vaccination and 28.3% of the health care professionals are not completed the hepatitis B vaccination. About 21.67% of the health care professionals are attending the educational programme related to NSI and 78.33% of the health care professionals are not attending the educational programme. About 26.67% of the health care professionals are current working in ICU, 28.3% of the health care professionals are working in emergency, 8.33% of the health care professionals are working in pathology department and 36.67% of the health care professionals are working in ward. The mean score of concepts of needle stick injury and its safety measures is raised from 8.37(S. D=1.966) in pre-test (margin of error = 8.37±0.4974 at 95% confidence interval) to 15.55(S. D=2.14) in post-test (margin of error = 15.55±0.5414 at 95% confidence internal). The ‘t’ test computed between the pre-test and post-test knowledge of health care professionals (t=20.9300) was highly significant at 1% level. CONCLUSION: - The study concluded there was significant increase in the knowledge level on the administration of interventional clinical teaching programme to the health care professionals. Deficit of knowledge regarding needle stick injury and its safety measures existed in varying degree of health care professionals in all the learning need area therefore knowledge and practice among HCP need to be updated.

How To Cite (APA)

Ms. Neha Kumari, Ms. Neeru Kumari, Ms. Namrata Kumari, & Ms. Nikee Minz (June-2022). ‘A study to assess the effectiveness of clinical teaching programme on knowledge regarding needle stick injury and its safety measures among health care professionals in NMCH Jamuhar, Rohtas’. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 7(6), 418-432. http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.30757

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