hepatitis b vaccination coverage among teaching hospitals workers in the urmia city

hepatitis b vaccination coverage among teaching hospitals workers in the urmia city ali gholami, tahereh alinia , leila moosavi jahromi * received: 25 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract introduction: hepatitis b virus infection is a well recognized risk for healthcare workers (hcws). for protect hcws of hepatitis b, vaccination has been recommended. the aim of this study is survey of hepatitis b vaccination coverage among teaching hospitals workers in the urmia city. materials &methods;: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 400 personal of urmia teaching hospitals. samples allocated to three teaching hospitals with use of proportion sampling and in every hospital use of random sampling. data analyzed with spss software ver16. results: according to the findings of this study, 92.5% of the subjects received at least one dose vaccine that 74.5% of them received complete doses and 18% uncompleted. 66.7% of unvaccinated workers were males and 33.3% were females. between educational level and history of vaccination wasn't observed significant relation (p=0.035). conclusion: although vaccination coverage in urmia teaching hospitals workers is partly suitable but quarter of them are without vaccine history or uncompleted vaccine history that require following this persons to complete vaccination. keywords: vaccination, hepatitis b, teaching hospital, urmia address: urmia university of medical sciences,urmia,iran , tel: (+98) 9155105801 e-mail: [email protected]