Oyebimpe Jumoke Adenlewo|Peter Olalekan Adeosun|Olawunmi Adedoyin Fatusi
Medical and dental students’ attitude and practice of prevention strategies against hepatitis B virus infection in a Nigerian university
medical dental students highrisk group hepatitis b virus hbv infection occupational hazard leading cause death globally prevention strategies include vaccination observance standard precaution however available reports claim utilization prevention strategies low study evaluated attitude students towards hbv vaccine crossinfection practicesthis study crosssectional study carried college health sciences obafemi awolowo university nigeria using convenience sampling method anonymous selfadministered questionnaires distributed first 120 participants volunteered participate study data analysis done using ibms statistical package spss version 20 software statistical level significance set p 005over eighty percent 832 participants least dose hbv vaccine 7965 completed three doses majority 947 students receive vaccine cited busy schedule reason failure vaccinated taking every patient contagious disease risk 865 washing hands contact patients body fluids 821 wearing gloves touching mucous membranes nonintact skin 741 practiced universal standard precaution itemsthe uptake rate hbv vaccination practice standard precaution among students commendable however need improvement considering level hbv infection nigeria