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.

Paper Type:Research Article.