Effect of intensive training on occupational protection from infectious diseases among health care workers in Sierra Leone military hospital
QIN Yu-ling
SONG Bing
ZHANG Wei
WU Dan
MI Lai
HAO Li-yan
Abstract：Objective To explore the effect of intensive training on the cognition and practical skill of occupational exposure protection among health care workers in hospitals and primary medical centers of Sierra Leone. Methods The medical staffs from a big comprehensive hospital named A Hospital and 2 primary medical centers were selected to join the investigation on the cognition and practical skill of occupational exposure protection from infectious diseases through designed questionnaires. According to the feedback information, the targeted intensive training, including theoretical lesson and practical exercise, was carried out. Then we conducted a questionnaire survey again among these health care workers. The cognition and practical skill before and after training intervention were compared. Results The level of cognition and practical skill among health care workers after training was significantly higher than that before training (P < 0.05). The overall level of cognition and practical skill on infectious disease protection in primary hospitals was lower than that in A Hospital. Conclusions The intensive training intervention for local health care workers can significantly improve their cognition and practical skill of occupational protection of infectious diseases. However, primary medical center is in poor condition and equipped with low-quality staff, so special training of practice skills for health care workers need to be further strengthened and supervised.
Keywords：health care workersoccupational protectionintensive trainingintervention effectSierra Leone
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 43-47 )