Needlestick Injuries
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of needlestick injury prevention module
Detailed description
After being informed about the study and the potential risk, participants were given written informed consent to be filled out and signed. Agreed participants will receive a 1-week duration of educational intervention. The intervention only involved education and was less likely to cause injury or damage to the body.
Interventions
OTHERNeedlestick Injury Prevention
this intervention will be using needlestick injury prevention module which will involve lecture, demonstration, and role play
Sponsors
Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Masking description
Control group will be given materials regarding patient safety as masking. Patient safety will have some element on needlestick and injury prevention.
Intervention model description
All house officers who were eligible and consented, who participated in cross sectional study were included into intervention group until the required sample size was achieved. The same numbers of officers, eligible and consented were included into control group. For intervention, only educational intervention will be given which consist of lecture, demonstration, and role play. After that, data collection will be given right after the intervention completion and 4 weeks after that using self administered questionnaire. The same will be applied to the control group which data collection will be done right masking and 4 weeks later.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. All house officer in government hospitals with house officer training programme 2. House officers must be among those who join housemanship program for minimum of 1 month duration
Exclusion criteria
1. House officer who undergo attachment outside the training hospital 2. House officer that are not available during the data collection period or on long leave
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Needlestick injury Risk Perception Score | right after intervention and 4 weeks after | determine the risk perception score improvement using likert scale. 1 is the lowest and 5 is the highest mark. the higher the mark the better. |
Countries
Malaysia
Outcome results
None listed