A survey on the infection rate of tuberculosis among employees of the antituberculosis institutions in Henan province, China / 中华流行病学杂志
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
;
(12): 980-983, 2007.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-322858
ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the situation of tuberculosis (TB) infection among the employees of the anti-TB institutions in Henan.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Cross-sectional study was adopted the employees working in all municipal-level- anti-TB institutions and 40 anti-TB institutions at county-level selected randomly from 109 counties of the province were regarded as surveyed objects. Tuberculin skin test (TST) was used to test the infection with PPD.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>2153 employees accepting the TST and the positive rate was 60.6%, of which the positive rate was 66.1% among healthcare workers. Among the employees and healthcare workers, the positive rates of TST adjusted by the stratum weights between municipal-level and county-level institutions were 57.3% and 62.8% respectively with Chi-square test the analysis of multivariate logistic vegression, both positive rate and strong positive rate among healthcare workers, the employees older than 30 years of age and working in municipal-level institutions were significantly higher than those among non-healthcare workers, the employees younger than 30 years old and working in county-level institutions, respectively. There were not significant differences of positive and strong positive rates between employees with and without BCG-history, or between male employees and female employees.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Program on TB infection control in anti-TB institutions of Henan were weak and the employees especiolly healthcare workers had a high vocational exposure.</p>
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Personnel, Hospital
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Tuberculosis
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Tuberculin Test
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Logistic Models
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China
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Population Surveillance
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Epidemiology
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Prevalence
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Cross-Sectional Studies
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Multivariate Analysis
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
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Screening study
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
Year:
2007
Type:
Article
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