acidente de trabalho com materiais biologicos em profissionais da saude

ARTIGO ARTICLE

Acidente de trabalho, com material biológico, em profissionais de saúde de hospitais públicos do Distrito Federal, Brasil, 2002/2003
Work-related accidents in health care workers from public hospitals in Brasilia, Brazil, 2002/2003

Roberta de Betânia Caixeta 1
Anadergh Barbosa-Branco 2

Abstract
1 Hospital das Forças
Armadas, Brasília, Brasil.
2 Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brasil.
Correspondência
A. Barbosa-Branco
Departamento de Saúde
Coletiva, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde,
Universidade de Brasília.
Campus Universitário
Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, DF
70910-900, Brasil. [e-mail] Introdução

This study evaluates the knowledge and acceptance of biosafety measures by health care professionals in light of the potential risk of occupational transmission of HIV. The survey assessed 570 health care workers from 6 hospitals, randomly selected from all hospitals in the Federal District (Brasilia), Brazil. The sample corresponds to 15.0% of the all health professionals in the selected hospitals. These professionals answered a semi-structured questionnaire on knowledge of biosafety and universal precautions, risk of occupational HIV transmission, work-related accidents, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and acceptance of chemoprophylaxis and HIV testing. The overall accident coefficient was 39.1. Dentists, physicians, and laboratory technicians were those who most frequently suffered such accidents. The accident coefficient was inversely proportional to the hospital capacity. The professionals’ knowledge of biosafety concepts and the fact that written norms were displayed in their workstations did not positively affect the work accident coefficient.

Estudos sobre acidentes do trabalho com potencial risco de transmissão do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV ) em profissionais de saúde têm sido realizados em várias partes do mundo, mais particularmente nos