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Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the most serious occupational hazards faced by healthcare workers. Surgical personnel are particularly at risk. HBV infection is preventable by vaccination, but no previous study has assessed HBV vaccination coverage among healthcare workers in...

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Autores principales: Noubiap, Jean Jacques N, Nansseu, Jobert Richie N, Kengne, Karen K, Wonkam, Ambroise, Wiysonge, Charles S
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24629103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-7-11
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author Noubiap, Jean Jacques N
Nansseu, Jobert Richie N
Kengne, Karen K
Wonkam, Ambroise
Wiysonge, Charles S
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Nansseu, Jobert Richie N
Kengne, Karen K
Wonkam, Ambroise
Wiysonge, Charles S
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description BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the most serious occupational hazards faced by healthcare workers. Surgical personnel are particularly at risk. HBV infection is preventable by vaccination, but no previous study has assessed HBV vaccination coverage among healthcare workers in Cameroon. We assessed knowledge of risk factors of HBV infection, awareness of HBV vaccine, and vaccination status of surgical residents in Cameroon. METHODS: A structured pretested questionnaire was administered to 49 of the 70 surgical residents in Cameroon during the 2011–2012 academic year. RESULTS: Since the beginning of their residency program, 28 (57.1%) had had at least one accidental exposure to blood, with a median of 2 (range 1 to 25) exposures. Most of them had a good knowledge of risk factors for HBV infection. Although 98.0% (n = 48) were aware of the HBV vaccine, and 89.8% (n = 44) knew that they were at high risk of infection, only 24.5% (n = 12) had received a full course of at least three doses of the vaccine. In addition, only 33.3% (4/12) underwent post-vaccination testing to confirm a good immunological response (and thus effective protection against HBV infection). Among the 53.1% (n = 28) who had never had any dose of HBV vaccine, the main reasons for not being vaccinated were lack of time (38.5%), lack of money to pay for vaccine (23.1%), and lack of sufficient information on the vaccine (19.2%). Only 20.4% (n = 10) had been sensitized by their training institutions about the importance of HBV vaccination. CONCLUSION: There is a low HBV vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon. As part of occupational safety measures, complete HBV vaccination should be strongly recommended and offered to surgical trainees before the beginning of their training program.
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spelling pubmed-39752702014-04-05 Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon Noubiap, Jean Jacques N Nansseu, Jobert Richie N Kengne, Karen K Wonkam, Ambroise Wiysonge, Charles S Int Arch Med Original Research BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the most serious occupational hazards faced by healthcare workers. Surgical personnel are particularly at risk. HBV infection is preventable by vaccination, but no previous study has assessed HBV vaccination coverage among healthcare workers in Cameroon. We assessed knowledge of risk factors of HBV infection, awareness of HBV vaccine, and vaccination status of surgical residents in Cameroon. METHODS: A structured pretested questionnaire was administered to 49 of the 70 surgical residents in Cameroon during the 2011–2012 academic year. RESULTS: Since the beginning of their residency program, 28 (57.1%) had had at least one accidental exposure to blood, with a median of 2 (range 1 to 25) exposures. Most of them had a good knowledge of risk factors for HBV infection. Although 98.0% (n = 48) were aware of the HBV vaccine, and 89.8% (n = 44) knew that they were at high risk of infection, only 24.5% (n = 12) had received a full course of at least three doses of the vaccine. In addition, only 33.3% (4/12) underwent post-vaccination testing to confirm a good immunological response (and thus effective protection against HBV infection). Among the 53.1% (n = 28) who had never had any dose of HBV vaccine, the main reasons for not being vaccinated were lack of time (38.5%), lack of money to pay for vaccine (23.1%), and lack of sufficient information on the vaccine (19.2%). Only 20.4% (n = 10) had been sensitized by their training institutions about the importance of HBV vaccination. CONCLUSION: There is a low HBV vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon. As part of occupational safety measures, complete HBV vaccination should be strongly recommended and offered to surgical trainees before the beginning of their training program. BioMed Central 2014-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3975270/ /pubmed/24629103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-7-11 Text en Copyright © 2014 Noubiap et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Nansseu, Jobert Richie N
Kengne, Karen K
Wonkam, Ambroise
Wiysonge, Charles S
Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon
title Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon
title_full Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon
title_fullStr Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon
title_full_unstemmed Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon
title_short Low hepatitis B vaccine uptake among surgical residents in Cameroon
title_sort low hepatitis b vaccine uptake among surgical residents in cameroon
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24629103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-7-11
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