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Abstract
Health care personnel are at real risk for exposure to patients’ blood and body fluid through providing comprehensive and continuous care and consequential at risk of acquiring blood borne pathogens. Blood borne pathogens include hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). At present, the only method of minimizing the possibility of exposure to infections is by compliance with universal infection control precautions at all interventions for all patients regardless of suspicion of infection. Universal precautions elements include hand washing, utilization of appropriate protective barriers such as gloves, mask, gowns and eye wear, and safe handling and disposal of sharps, safe handling and disposal of linen, disposal of waste and disinfection of blood/body fluids spills. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the compliance with universal infection control precautions among health care personnel in the Critical Care Units at Assiut University Hospital. The design of this study was a descriptive correlational. This study was carried out in the trauma ICU, the general ICU and the postoperative ICU. The sample of this study consisted of a convenient sample of all health care personnel who are in direct and indirect contact with critically ill patients’ blood and body fluids during their practice. The total number of HCP was 145 namely, 108 nurses, 12 physicians and 25 auxiliary personnel.
Tools of the study:
Two tools were developed by the researcher and used in this study to collect data:-
Tool 1:- Universal precautions knowledge questionnaire which consists of two parts. Part one includes health care personnel characteristics, Part two includes 5 multiple choice questions to assess HCP knowledge about blood-borne infection, in addition to a structured questionnaire to assess HCP opinion regarding the importance of universal infection control precautions in the ICU as follows; (15) questions given to the physicians, (20) to the nurses and (17) to the auxiliary personnel. Variations in the number of questions between physicians, nurses and auxiliary personnel were related to their different roles in practice in the ICUs.