Background and objective:Standard precautions are a proper strategy for prevention of occupational diseases among nurses. The study was aimed to investigate the application of Standard precautions for prevention of transmission of hepatitis B and C and HIV in educational hospitals.
Materials and methods:In this cross-sectional study 218 nurses, 174 female and 44 male, of two educational hospitals in Zahedan, Iran uses multi-stages sampling method were studied. A polychotomy standard questionnaire including demographic questions and health belief model constructs were used to gather the data. The participants responded to questions via self-report method. Through SPSS 16 and using descriptive (percentage, Mean) and analytical (paired T test, independent T test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and linear regression coefficient) statistics the data were analyzed.
Results: The mean age of the precipitants was 31.73±6.28.Only 27.7% of nurses had a good level of knowledge and 23.9, 63.3 and 13.8% of them had good, average and weak level of practice, respectively. Also results of Liner regression showed that perceived barrier and self-efficacy predicted the 23.5% of predictive behaviors variances.
Conclusion: Health Belief Model is a proper framework for designing and implementing the educational interventions in promoting the predictive behaviors of Hepatitis and AIDS in hospitals.
Masoudy G, KhasheiVarnamkhasti F, Ansarimogadam A, Sahnavazi M, Bazi M. Predication of Compliance to Standard Precautions among Nurses in Educational Hospitals inZahedan Based on Health Belief Model. Iran J Health Educ Health Promot 2016; 4 (1) :74-81 URL: http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-469-en.html