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AUTHOR
Alfredo Montecucco
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Italian Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Human Papillomavirus Infection and Prevention
2020
Objective: To assess healthcare workers&rsquo
Predicting needlestick and sharps injuries in nursing students: Development of the SNNIP scale
2020
© 2020 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aim: To develop an instrument to investigate knowledge and predictive factors of needlestick and sharps injuries (NSIs) in nursing students during clinical placements. Design: Instrument development and cross-sectional study for psychometric testing. Methods: A self-administered instrument including demographic data, injury epidemiology and predictive factors of NSIs was developed between October 2018–January 2019. Content validity was assessed by a panel of experts. The instrument's factor structure and discriminant validity were explored using principal components analysis. The STROBE guidelines were followed. Results: E…
STUDIO MULTICENTRICO IN NETWORK DI CENTRI UNIVERSITARI ITALIANI SULLA PREVALENZA DELL’INFEZIONE TUBERCOLARE LATENTE (ITBL) IN STUDENTI DI AREA SANITA…
2021
Introduzione. La tubercolosi (TB) rappresenta ancora oggi un problema di salute pubblica a livello globale. Sebbene l’incidenza mostri ampie differenze geografiche, la TB rappresenta una delle più importanti cause di morte e quella principale da singolo agente infettivo (3). Si stima che un terzo della popolazione mondiale risulti infettata in forma latente da ceppi di Mycobacterium tuberculosis. L’infezione tubercolare latente (ITBL) e la TB costituiscono ancora oggi, un rischio professionale per gli operatori sanitari e soggetti a questi equiparati, quali studenti che svolgono attività formativa professionalizzante in ambito assistenziale. La maggior parte dei casi di malattia attiva di o…