Prevalence of Needle Stick Injuries and Its Association with Workload Among Health Care Providers: a Cross sectional Study from Tertiary Care Hospital of Rohilkhand Region, Uttar Pradesh

Dharmendra K. Gupta; Ruchi Arun; Ravi Kumar; Richa Mishra

Dharmendra K. Gupta Associate professor, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ruchi Arun Assistant professor, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ravi Kumar Statistician, Department of Economics, University of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Richa Mishra Statistician, Freelancer, 119/388 Darashanpurwa Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Introduction: Health care providers (HCPs) are prone to a
variety of dangers like infections, cuts, Needle stick injuries,
radiations, vaccines, serums, etc. Since this paper mainly
aims to see the prevalence of needle sticks and sharp injuries
(NSSIs), which are one of the occupational hazards, that occur
during the handling/processing of the NSSIs in the hospital. The
present study aims to find the prevalence of needle stick injuries
among the HCPs and to investigate its association with work
load among the HCPs in tertiary care hospitals of Rohilkhand
region, Uttar Pradesh.
Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study was
carried out between 2013 to 2014 in the Rohilkhand region of
Uttar Pradesh; 312 registered HCPs in a tertiary care hospital in
Bareilly city under the Rohilkhand region were randomly chosen
and investigated through structured questionnaire. Mainly the
study was based on qualitative data since data is described
through frequency and percentage; also Chi-square test was
used to test the association between workload and prevalence
of needle stick injuries.
Results: Out of 312 HCPs127 (40.70%) participants were
female, and 185 (59.30%) were male respondents. The
workload of 75.6% HCPs in terms of working hours was more
than 35 hours in a week, and nursing students were working
less than 35 hours in the hospital. Needle stick injuries were
reported by 53 % of the 312 HCPs. The association between
needle stick injuries and workload among HCPs was significant
(χ2=55.33, p< 0.001), revealing that needle stick injuries were
closely linked to workload. Needlesticks injuries were found in
84 (80%) of the 104 HCPs with a high workload.
Conclusion: In this study, 53% of healthcare workers were
injured by needles. The highest number of injuries occurred
among HCPs with a heavy workload (worked more than 35
hours per week and night duty more than three times per week).

Keywords: Cross-sectional study, Health care providers, Needle sticks injuries.

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