Effectiveness of Education Training Program in Preventing Needle Stick Injury among Healthcare Workers in Health Clinics in Kuala Lumpur.

The intervention is an educational training program that aims to reduce the needle stick injuries. The intervention will be based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) Model. The training program will be a one day workshop that will include the face to face lectures, group discussion and role play. The work shop will be modeled based on the literature search such as the recommendation of WHO and CDC. A training of trainers will be done by the researcher who is a medical officer with Masters in Public Health to selected health care workers from the clinics. The selected health care workers to conduct the workshop at their clinics.The workshop will be conducted at the health clinics by healthcare workers who will be trained using a standardized training manual developed for this study. The workshop will begin with the ice breaking activity and introduction to the objectives of the workshop as well as ground rules for the participants. This will be followed by lectures to provide information on epidemiology of needle stick injury, blood borne disease and the prevention of needle stick injuries. For the motivation construct, group discussions from case scenarios. This case scenarios will be of previous true cases. Finally for the behavioral skill construct, problem solving activities based on daily practice encounters that increase needle stick injuries will be used. This will include both role plays and group discussion. The workshop will end with review of lessons learnt, take home messages and t evaluation of the workshop. Certificate of participation will be provides to the participants of the workshop.