title: Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices among healthcare workers in a tertiary care hospital on needle stick injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study aims to assess healthcare workers' needle-stick injury (NSI) knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP).
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was conducted in a 600-bedded hospital throughout six months. The data were collected using an anonymous, self-reporting questionnaire. Participants were various healthcare workers (HCW) drawn through stratified random sampling and their knowledge, attitude and practice regarding NSI were assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There is significant difference in the mean knowledge, attitude and practice scores among healthcare workers. Even though scores are better for doctors and nurses, practice scores were better for technical staff. Healthcare workers, who had better practice scores, had suffered fewer NSIs. Since this study is a cross-sectional, the population's NSI incidence could not be calculated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study emphasizes that applying knowledge to practice is required to prevent NSIs. Various recommendations to help prevent and deal with NSIs are made.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study analyses healthcare workers' NSI knowledge, attitude and practices, and also assesses their correlation with NSI incidence, which has not been done previously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India. bhargavaaradhana@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Aradhana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhargava
authors.forename: Bibhabati
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Archana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thakur
authors.forename: Vinita
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dogra
authors.forename: Poonam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Loomba
authors.forename: Sonal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016602:Needlestick Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers / Q000592:standards*; D000078329:Workforce; D055815:Young Adult