Level of knowledge of biosecurity associated with occupational accidentsin assistant personnel of EsSALUD

Abstract

The objective was to determine the different levels of knowledge of biosecurity that influence the work accidents of the health care personnel CAP II CHILCA EsSALUD 2015. The study was of descriptive, correlational, prospective cross-sectional design, made to the population of 30 health workers who work in the Primary Care Center; a questionari was used for data collection, and the hypothesis was tested by means of the test for the statistical Independence of Chi square distribution. The results show that, 56,7% of the personal evaluated have a low knowledge of biosafety; 20 % of the personnel presented work accidents. There is a significant relationship (p<0,05) between the level of knowledge of biosafety and the work accidents rate according to age of 41-50 years, occupation in the group of security guards , cleaning and nurses; among those who do not know principles of universality, use of barriers; risk scale and there is also a significant relationship between the incorrect response on biological risk. In conclusión, the level of knowledge of biosecurity and the labor accidentability in workers was not significant (p>0,05), however, it is observed that 3,3% of workers with a high level of knowledge did not have an accident at work, while those with a médium level of knowledge and under 20% had work accidents; this indicates that if we improve the level of knowledge of biosecurity the incidence of accidents would be lower.