Compliance with Standard Precautions among Nursing Care Workers: Short Repor

Healthcare workers are at risk for occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens, including hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) via blood or bodily fluids. Accordingly, the standard precautions should be implemented in health-threatening circumstances. The purpose of this study was to improving compliance with the standard precautions among nursing care workers in the hospitals of Rafsanjan city. In this quasi-experimental study, all 91 hospital nurses working at the hospitals of Rafsanjan city were included. Pre-designed questionnaires were distributed to the participants before, shortly after and 6 months after the training courses presented as group discussion, problem-based learning, pamphlets and booklets. Data was analyzed by Friedman and repeated measure ANOVA. Results showed that the mean age of the participants was 35.93±7.91. The mean scores of knowledge related to the standard precautions before, shortly after and 6 month after the training intervention were 22.60±3.16, 26.05±1.28 and 26.17±1.15 respectively. Mean scores of attitude for these three time series were 44.28±4.41, 50.84±3.98 and 50.93±3.79 and finally these values for the compliance behavior were 30.77±4.84, 33.26±2.17 and 33.41±2.25 respectively.. The results showed that training intervention had a positive effect on knowledge, attitude and compliance behavior of the nurses regarding the s tandard precautions. These findings may be applicable for development of similar training programs.