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This study was carried out at Three Ministry health hospitals in Assiut, included: Al-Eman Hospital, Al-shamlaa Hospital (General Assiut Hospital) and Hospital of Ophthalmology. Data were a collected from a purposive sample of 200 nurses working in surgical departments included operating rooms at Assiut Ministry Health Hospitals. (100) nurses from Al-Eman Hospital, (65) from Al-shamlaa Hospital (General Assiut Hospital) and (35) from Ophthalmology Hospital). Male and female nurses were willing to participate in this study. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of hand skin problems among nurses who are working at surgical departments included operating rooms at Ministry Health Hospitals.
The following tools were utilized for data collection:
Tool I: A structured Self administrator’s questionnaire sheet: This sheet was developed by the researcher in Arabic language to collect information based on the relevant literature and consulting expertise in this area to determine nurses’ knowledge about hand skin problems. This tool included two parts:-
Part I: Demographic characteristic of the nurses it was including 8 items: such as: age, sex, unite, marital status, residence, level of education, years of experiences , work hours per week, training session about prevention of hand skin problems and family history about hand skin problems and skin disease or allergy.
Part II: Risk factors for hand skin problems : This included sixteen questions about risk factors.
Tools (II): The Hand Skin Assessment Form: A self-rating Likert-type scale used by participants to assess condition of their own hands.
The main findings of the present study were:
The majority of nurses were females (87.0%) age ranging between 31-40yrs old (48%), and the majority of them were married (84.0%)
More than half of nurses were having nursing institute (55%) and more than 10 years of experience (59%). More than one third of nurses were working from 40-45hours week (41%) and 46-50 hours per week (45.5%)
Some (25.5%) of nurses have family history of hand skin problems and (23.5%) of nurses had skin allergy or disease.
Most of nurses had not attained any training session about prevention of hand skin problems.
About 27.5 % of nurses` had hand skin problems and 11.5 % complained from hand skin problems less than one year ago.
Majority of nurses knowledge about risk factors of hand skin problems according to nurses answers are: Repeat washing hands, use of gloves, do not dry hands after washing them, chemical substances, some types of soap and detergents lead to hand skin problems, hand washing with hot water in the winter leads to hand skin problems and too much use of beta dine and alcohol in hand washing (94.0%,93.5%,87%,86.5%, 85.5%,82.0%,and 80.5%, respectively ).
There was a statistical significant different between three hospitals regarding risk factors except use of gloves and chemical substance P-value =0.05,(0.19 and 0.33 respectively ).
There was a Statistical significant differences between three hospitals regarding risk factors except dermatology or skin allergy and many use soap P-value =0.05,(0.19 and 0.17 respectively ).
There was no statistical significant difference as regarding skin hand assessment form for nurses with hand skin problems in three hospitals and there was no statistical significant difference as regarding age, sex, level of education and work experience except work hours per week and nurses with hand skin problems .