A survey on the infection rate of tuberculosis among employees of the antituberculosis institutions in Henan province, China.
- Author:
Guo-jie WANG
1
;
Shi-wen MA
;
Xin-an ZHEN
;
Lan-tao MENG
;
Ji-ying XU
;
Yan-qiu ZHANG
;
Zhan-feng LIU
;
Dong-liang LI
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Adult; China; epidemiology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Hospitals, Chronic Disease; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Occupational Diseases; epidemiology; Personnel, Hospital; statistics & numerical data; Population Surveillance; Prevalence; Tuberculin Test; Tuberculosis; epidemiology
- From:Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2007;28(10):980-983
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo study the situation of tuberculosis (TB) infection among the employees of the anti-TB institutions in Henan.
METHODSCross-sectional study was adopted the employees working in all municipal-level- anti-TB institutions and 40 anti-TB institutions at county-level selected randomly from 109 counties of the province were regarded as surveyed objects. Tuberculin skin test (TST) was used to test the infection with PPD.
RESULTS2153 employees accepting the TST and the positive rate was 60.6%, of which the positive rate was 66.1% among healthcare workers. Among the employees and healthcare workers, the positive rates of TST adjusted by the stratum weights between municipal-level and county-level institutions were 57.3% and 62.8% respectively with Chi-square test the analysis of multivariate logistic vegression, both positive rate and strong positive rate among healthcare workers, the employees older than 30 years of age and working in municipal-level institutions were significantly higher than those among non-healthcare workers, the employees younger than 30 years old and working in county-level institutions, respectively. There were not significant differences of positive and strong positive rates between employees with and without BCG-history, or between male employees and female employees.
CONCLUSIONProgram on TB infection control in anti-TB institutions of Henan were weak and the employees especiolly healthcare workers had a high vocational exposure.
