[A survey on the infection rate of tuberculosis among employees of the antituberculosis institutions in Henan province, China].
OBJECTIVE
To study the situation of tuberculosis (TB) infection among the employees of the anti-TB institutions in Henan.


METHODS
Cross-sectional study was adopted the employees working in all municipal-level- anti-TB institutions and 40 anti-TB institutions at county-level selected randomly from 109 counties of the province were regarded as surveyed objects. Tuberculin skin test (TST) was used to test the infection with PPD.


RESULTS
2153 employees accepting the TST and the positive rate was 60.6%, of which the positive rate was 66.1% among healthcare workers. Among the employees and healthcare workers, the positive rates of TST adjusted by the stratum weights between municipal-level and county-level institutions were 57.3% and 62.8% respectively with Chi-square test the analysis of multivariate logistic vegression, both positive rate and strong positive rate among healthcare workers, the employees older than 30 years of age and working in municipal-level institutions were significantly higher than those among non-healthcare workers, the employees younger than 30 years old and working in county-level institutions, respectively. There were not significant differences of positive and strong positive rates between employees with and without BCG-history, or between male employees and female employees.


CONCLUSIONS
Program on TB infection control in anti-TB institutions of Henan were weak and the employees especiolly healthcare workers had a high vocational exposure.
Wang
Guo-jie
GJ
Antituberculosis Institute, Henan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China.
Ma
Shi-wen
SW
Zhen
Xin-an
XA
Meng
Lan-tao
LT
Xu
Ji-ying
JY
Zhang
Yan-qiu
YQ
Liu
Zhan-feng
ZF
Li
Dong-liang
DL
D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006763:Hospitals, Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology*