بررسی وضعیت واکسیناسیون هپاتیت B در دانشجویان دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ارتش

Background: HBV infection is one of the great medical problems of world and Iran. Based on WHO reports, about %37 of world population have been infected by HBV and over 2 billion people have new or old evidence of HBV infection and about 400 million have chronic hepatitis and are carriers of HBV infection. Every year about 2 million people die because of HBV infection. 3/4 of world population lives in high risk areas. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, 300 students from the Army University of Medical Sciences were studied. All of the information was gathered using a questionnaire. This information was analyzed by SPSS. Results: In this study, from 300 students, 190 were medical students and 110 were paramedical students. %89 of them had been vaccinated and %11 had not. Among the vaccinated students %54/5 were in step three, %36/6 in step two and %9 in step one of the vaccination program. %74/2 of medical students and %25 of paramedical students were vaccinated in accordance with 016 hepatitis program. Conclusion: Other studies have evaluated the efficacy of HBV vaccination, but our study was based on the evolution of HBV vaccination. At the end we found that HBV vaccination has an acceptable condition in the Army University of Medical Sciences and it can be improved even more.