Sero-prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection and associated factors among health care workers and medical waste handlers in primary hospitals of North-west Ethiopia

Abstract

ObjectiveThe aim of this cross-sectional study was to determined the sero-prevalence of HBV infection and associated factors among health care workers and medical waste handlers in primary hospitals of North-west Ethiopia.ResultsA total of 388 study participants were included in this study. Of which, 268 (69%) were health care workers and 120 (31%) were medical waste handlers. Males accounted 54.9% and the mean age for all study participants was 28.3 (standard deviation = 6.9). Hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) was detected in 2.6% health care workers and 2.5% medical waste handlers and the overall hepatitis B virus infection was 10 (2.6%). High rate of hepatitis B virus infection was detected in single participants and those in the age group of 30–40 years were more infected (6.6%). History of contact with HBV infected case (8.3%) (AOR = 6.8, 95% CI = 1.6–28.5, P = 0.009) and history of jaundice (15.4%) (AOR = 10.5, 95% CI = 2.1–12.2, P = 0.03) were statistically associated factors for HBV infection. More than half (54.4%) of the study participants did not take training on infection and 9 (4.3%) of them were positive for HBsAg (COR = 1.3, 95% CI = 0.0.02–1.02, P = 0.052).

Sero-prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection among the consumers of the alcoholic beverage, cheka in Konso zone, southwestern Ethiopia

“…HBV can remain on any surface it comes in contact with for about a week, particularly on table-tops, razor blades, and bloodstains, without losing its infectivity [ 21 ]. This result is similar to the previous studies conducted in northwest Ethiopia and Nigeria [ 1 , 22 ].…”

“…Hepatitis is a major public health conundrum that results in mortality and morbidity worldwide [ 1 ]. Hepatitis B virus is a hepatotropic DNA virus that causes the immune-mediated killing of infected liver cells [ 2 ].…”

Prevalence of needlestick injury among healthcare workers in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…The earliest study was conducted during 2009 [55], and the latest two articles were published in 2019 [58, 59]. Overall information regarding the prevalence of NSIs was obtained from five regions and two self-administrative cities including Amhara [41, 44, 47, 49, 51, 53, 57–59]; Oromia [42, 48, 56]; Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People (SNNP) [37, 46, 50]; Somali [38]; and Harari [43]; two studies were conducted on both Somali and Dre Dawa (SAC) [52, 55], and four articles were obtained from two self-administrative cities Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa [39, 40, 45, 54]. The sample size across the studies was ranged from 162 [37] to 760 [46].…”

“…Among the studies, ten articles exclusively reported the 12-month NSI prevalence [38, 41, 42, 44, 50–53, 55, 56]. Similarly, seven studies exclusively reported the lifetime prevalence of the NSI [37, 39, 40, 47, 54, 57, 58]. The remaining five articles have reported both the 12-month and lifetime needlestick injury prevalence [43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 59].…”

Undiagnosed HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infections in people with severe psychiatric disorders in Ethiopia

“…Epidemiologic evidence shows that a considerable percentage of people with severe psychiatric disorders had comorbid viral infections such as human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) 6.2-29.10% [7][8][9][10], hepatitis B virus (HBV) 7.45-47.5% [10][11][12][13], as well as hepatitis C virus (HCV) 6.2-29.8% [7,10,13,14] infections at some point in their lives. These prevalence estimates are considerably higher than the reported prevalence in the general population [15][16][17][18]. In Ethiopia, the estimated prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV were 0.66% [15], 6.3% [16], and 3% [16] respectively.…”