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[Prevalence of occupational accidents and related factors in students of dentistry]
Katherine M Arrieta-Vergara1, Shyrley Díaz-Cárdenas1, Farith D González-Martínez1
1Departamento de Odontología Preventiva y Social, Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Objective:
Describe the prevalence of occupational accidents students of dentistry and associate it with factors of their clinical practice.
Methods:
Cross-sectional study, developed in a public university in the city of Cartagena in 2010. Participants included 213 students in l pre-clinics and clinics practice of dentistry, selected by simple random sampling. A self-administered questionnaire was applied to evaluate the occurrence of accidents as well as the associated factors. The data were analyzed by prevalence rates with confidence intervals of 95 %, using the chi2 test, with significance levels of 0.05. The Association Strength was estimated by OR and the multivariate analysis through nominal logistic regression.
Results:
The prevalence of occupational accidents is 46 %, the type of accident most often is prick (48.7 %), caused mainly by the Explorer (28.9 %). 58.1 % of the accidents are reported and continue care protocol. 87.7 % of the students enfold the needle after use. At bivariate level, only statistically significant association between occupational accidents and semester was presented, being more frequent for the more advanced semesters (p=0.004).
Conclusions:
because of high prevalence of occupational accidents, it is necessary to insist on the implementation of strategies for safe and appropriate environments for the development of educational practices for students.
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