Table 1 Awareness of participants of different work positions about safety injection practices at Fayoum’s primary health care facilities, 2019
Awareness items about safety injection practices (correct answers displayed) | Work position | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Physicians N (%) | Nurses N (%) | Phlebotomists N (%) | Total sample N (%) | P value | |
There are implemented safe injection policy and procedure in the center | 196 (96.1) | 348 (95.6) | 117 (100) | 661(96.5) | 0.07 |
Some diseases could be transmitted through contaminated devices (unsafe injection practice) | 204(100) | 364(100) | 117(100) | 685(100) | - |
Awareness about needle stick injury (NSI) exposure items | |||||
There are implemented policies and procedures for post-exposure of NSI | 196 (96.1) | 348 (95.6) | 117 (100) | 661(96.5) | 0.07 |
Knowing measures to be taken in case of NSI exposure | 176(86.3) | 304(83.5) | 105(89.7) | 585(85.4) | 0.12 |
There is implemented reporting system after NSI exposure | 178(87.3) | 308 (84.6) | 106 (90.6) | 592(86.4) | 0.21 |
Awareness about supply items | |||||
Adequate stocks of syringes during last 6 months | 102(50) | 277(76.1) | 94(80.3) | 473(69.1) | .001* |
Regular supply of sharp boxes during last 6 months | 47(23) | 238(65.4) | 87(12.7) | 372(54.3) | .001* |
Awareness about disposal items | |||||
There are health care waste disposal policy/guidelines or similar by the Ministry | 53(26) | 276(75.8) | 93(79.5) | 422(61.6) | .001* |
There are designated staff for disposing health care waste | 109(53.4) | 283 (77.7) | 94(80) | 486(70.9) | .001* |
N-recapping of syringes | 146(76.5) | 326(89.6) | 108(92.3) | 590(86.1) | .001* |
Immediate disposal of used syringes in sharp boxes | 144(70.6) | 327(89.8) | 106(90.6) | 577(84.2) | .001* |
N-disposing sharp boxes when being full | 122(59.8) | 300(82.4) | 99(84.6) | 521(76.1) | .001* |