Investigation on knowledge of tumor-related occupational protection among medical staffs in cancer related departments of comprehensive hospitals / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the current status of tumor-related occupational protection knowledge among medical staffs in comprehensive hospitals. METHODS: A stratified random sampling method was used to select 572 medical workers from 24 comprehensive hospitals as study subjects, including 289 nurses and 283 medical doctors. The Survey on Occupational Protection Knowledge and Management of Hospital Tumors was used to investigate the research subjects. RESULTS: i) The awareness status of the tumor-related occupational protection knowledge the awareness rate of sharps injuries that should be included in occupational protection management was as high as 93.7%, while the awareness rate of standard operating procedures for occupational protection in working post was only 32.9%. ii) Evaluation on the management of tumor-related occupational protection in the hospital most medical personnel think that medical occupational protection is very important to medical quality and safety, and they are not satisfied with personal protective equipment(PPE), various protective facilities and medical devices. The satisfaction scores of subjects in the nursing group on the use of PPE, the convenience of PPE, the reliable quality of PPE, the use of occupational health protection facilities, and the degrees of satisfaction with the occupational protective functions of medical devices and materials were lower than those in the medical group(P<0.05). iii) The awareness status on the knowledge of the management of tumor-related occupational protection in medical staffs of hospital The awareness rate of items that the hospital′s prominent warning signs for medical waste places, equipment and materials was 89.9%, and the awareness rate of items that the contents of occupational safety and personal protection in the operating procedures of the workplace can meet the protection needs was only 38.1%. The awareness rates of understood that occupational exposure management department has regular inspections and supervision for related work in various departments, and can easily obtain occupational protection standard procedures and emergency treatment plans, the purchase information of work injury insurance, hospital′s prominent warning signs for places, equipment and materials were setting up in the nursing group were higher than that of the medical group(P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Hospitals should strengthen the related training on occupational protection operation specification and protective measures, improve the protection awareness of medical staffs, and make them actively use medical equipment and consumables with occupational protection functions, so as to reduce occupational exposure.