Document 2159
 DOCN  M94A2159
 TI    Knowledge about tuberculosis (TB) of health care providers (HCP) in a
       center for AIDS.
 DT    9412
 AU    Pacca J; Cavalcante N; Barbieri DD; Monteiro AL; Mendes NR; Training and
       Reference Center-AIDS (TRC-AIDS), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):368 (abstract no. PD0079). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370416
 AB    OBJECTIVE: evaluate knowledge on prevention and acquisition of TB by HCP
       at TRC-AIDS for future educational interventions and diagnostic
       procedures. METHODS: we applied an anonymous and voluntaire
       questionnaire with 21 questions to all 328 HCP. We analysed risk of
       exposure, school level, and professional categories. Ninety nine (39.5%)
       HCP were in direct care of patients; 182 (72.5%) knew someone with a
       history of TB. In this group, 25 (29.4%) of direct care professionals
       the person who had TB was not a close relation. One hundred and eighty
       three (72.9%) HCP wanted to do the test for searching TB status in
       themselves. About the knowledge of routes of transmission, we found
       correct answers in only 16 (57.3%) practical nurses, of these 14 (30.8%)
       believed in TB transmission by handgrip, fomites or blood and body
       fluids (like HIV); 14 (73.7%) physicians and 4 (44.4%) nurses had
       knowledge of predisposing factors. Nine (3.6%) HCP had TB in the past,
       of which 7 were in current case. DISCUSSION: it is necessary to improve
       educational programs, according to professional categories and degrees
       of difficulties. There are indicators of prejudice or a tendency to
       consider the patient far away, that could interfere in future actions.
       We worried about the number of HCP who had TB.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/COMPLICATIONS/*THERAPY  Brazil
       *Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional  Educational Status
       *Health Personnel  Human  Tuberculosis/COMPLICATIONS/*TRANSMISSION
       MEETING ABSTRACT

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