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Assessing the Risks that Interns Meet in the Working Environment

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Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Halk Sağlığı AD. Samsun

Arch Health Sci Res 2018; 5: 65-71
DOI: 10.17681/hsp.338994
Read: 2498 Downloads: 814 Published: 15 December 2019

Objective: The working environments of health professionals are one of the risky areas for employees' health. Medical faculty students especially intens, are exposed to these risks during their training and clinical practices in hospitals. In this study, it was aimed to determine some occupational risks and work-related complaints encountered by the interns who were educated at a Faculty of Medicine. Materials and Methods: All the interns trained at the Faculty of Medicine Hospital in 2016 were included in the descriptive study.The data were collected by the questionnaire developed by the researcher and analyzed in the SPSS 22.0 package program. The data were evaluatedin terms of number, percentile, mean and median. Results: The study period of 87% of interns exceeds 45 hours per week. Regarding with the working environment and conditions; There were complaints such as insomnia (84.3%), fatigue (79.1%), adequate and balanced nutrition (76.9%), social limitation (75.4%) and neck and back pain (57.5%).Interns said that they could most frequently encountered with biological agents (92.5%). The prevalence of interns injuries with penetrating-cutting instruments was 73.9%, and 86% of the injuries stated that they used gloves during the injury. It has been determined that the frequency of being exposed to violance by patients and/or relatives is 61.9%. Conclusion: The most common risk factors that threaten their health have been identified as overtime and needlestick and sharps injuries. In addition, the height of the violence rate is also remarkable. It is suggested that managers of medical faculties and training hospitals should make regulations to reduce risk factors. It is also proposed to increase awareness in terms of occupational risk factors in the interns.

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