Published date: Mar 14 2018

Journal Title: Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences

Issue title: Sudan JMS: Volume 13 (2018), Issue No. 1

Pages: 22 - 32

DOI: 10.18502/sjms.v13i1.1686

Almustafa Siddig Mohammed Mustafa

Almegdad Sharafaldin Mohamed Ahmed

Tariq Ahmed Abdelbaset Alamin

Mutaz Tarig HassanAhmed Shaheen

Awab Mohamed Mohamed Ahmed Hilali

Moneeb Hassan Mohammed Alamin Fadul

Ahmed Abdelaziz Abugrain Abdelsalam

Mohamed Ahmed Sidahmed Abdelrahim

Mohamed Nasr Mohamed Ahmed Elsheikh

Background: Hepatitis B is a serious chronic infection of the liver and caused by hepatitis B virus. It is an endemic disease in Sudan. Healthcare workers are occupationally more prone to acquire the disease. Evaluation of their knowledge, attitude and practice and their vaccination status, are very important in the control of the disease. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice
of healthcare workers towards hepatitis B and their vaccination status.

Materials and Methods: In total, 372 healthcare workers were enrolled in the study, which was conducted at 10 public hospitals in Khartoum state during July-August 2015. After taking written informed consent from the Khartoum State Research Department, self-administrated questionnaires were distributed to the healthcare
workers. The KAP score was the sum of the three categories, which is 32 points, and the mean was then obtained.

Results: The study revealed that the respondents’ mean scores of knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) were 18.4, 2.14 and 2.49, respectively. The study also showed that doctors have the highest KAP score in comparison with other occupations. Doctors are the least occupational category that uses gloves when dealing with patient’s blood. The KAP score was found higher among vaccinated healthcare workers 27.4% in comparison to unvaccinated ones, That yield to a significant the association between KAP score and vac-cination status (p-value0.007).
Conclusions: This study concluded that, there is a positive association between the level of vaccination among Health care workers and their Knowledge, attitude and practice of hepatitis B virus. Further studies would be recommended on larger population.

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