Kye Mon Min Swe, Ratana Somrongthong, Amit Bhardwaj and Adinegara Bin Lutfi Abas
Background: Needle stick and sharps injuries (NSIs) are a major hazard in transmission of infectious blood borne diseases among health care workers and medical students who are at risk of injuries because of daily procedures in performing clinical activities in the hospitals.
Objectives: This study was aimed to find out the effectiveness of needle stick injury prevention intervention on medical college students in Melaka, Malaysia.
Methods: Randomized control trial was conducted and the intervention groups received the health education intervention based on the model. McNemar's test was used to compare the difference of categorical variables. For pre and post intervention analysis for same population, Paired T test was used and for comparison between intervention and control group, student t test was used.
Results: There were total 316 medical students participated in this study, 136 (43.0%) in intervention and 180 (57.0%) in control groups. The incidence of needle stick injury in intervention groups was 25 (18.4%) pre intervention and 4 (2.9%) after intervention period. The finding reveals that the knowledge of students on needle stick injury was significantly increased after intervention.
Conclusion: Implementing of needle stick injury prevention intervention gave increased knowledge among the students and motivated them to apply this knowledge in their daily clinical practice, which would lead to decrease incidence of needle stick injury among the students.
