Study on the influence of health belief model on the compliance of medical staff with sharp injury protection behavior / 中华劳动卫生职业病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To explore the effects of the intervention based on the theoretical framework of Health Belief Model on improving sharp injury protection behavior compliance of medical staffs, in order to provide some references for energetically developing blood-borne occupational exposure protection intervention in the region.@*Methods@#According to the inclusion criteria, 178 medical staffs were selected, implemented intervention of the theory of health belief model. Methods included diversity training, experiencing operation, filed observation and supervision and so on, strengthened intervention after 1 month, evaluated the intervention effect after 3 months, used questionnaires and field observation to evaluate the effect before and after the intervention.@*Results@#the scores of security behavior compliance were higher before intervention and there was significant difference (P<0.05) . Observed that, after the intervention the incidence of unsafe behavior in medical personnel dropped from 29.1% to 13.2%, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05) .@*Conclusion@#The intervenion of the theory of health belief model can strengthen sharp injury protection belief of medical personnels, improve behavior compliance, reduces the occurrence of sharp injury.