Medicina Ocupacional y Asuntos de Salud

Abstracto

Prevalence and Associated Factors of Occupational Injury and Disease among Workers in Nekemte Referral Hospital, East Wollega Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Melese Chego Cheme, Soboka Chewaka Aga, Regea Dabsu Hirpa

Objectives: Globally, poor occupational health and safety results in 271 million work related injuries. In countries like Ethiopia, the risk of having work-related injury is 10 to 20 times higher than developed counties. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of occupational injury/disease among workers in Nekemte Referral Hospital. Cross-sectional study was conducted on 165 samples from December 2015 to January 2016. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. Adjusted odds ratio with 95% CI was used to measure associations in multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Results: A total of 161 study subject studied with response rate of 97.58%. Occupational injury prevalence rate in the last 12 months was 66% and respondents infected with different type of disease were 51%. Injury was associated with hand washing practices and scalpel cut. Nasocomial infection was associated with gender (AOR=2.679, 95% CI: 1.159-6.193), service years (AOR=4.272, 95% CI: 1.448-12.607) and working hours (AOR=4.791, 95% CI: 1.710-13.424). This high injury and nasocomial infection implies a need for due attention safety and infection prevention the study area and hospitals..