THE ADHESION TO THE PROTOCOL OF BIOLOGYC MONITORING BETWEEN HEALTH WORKERS

Abstract

The objective of this study was evaluate the adhesion of workers exposed to biological fluids considering the monitoring and follow up protocol at the worker health unit during 2005. This is a descriptive, transversal and retrospective research, that took place at the Worker Hospital, in Curitiba, south of Brasil. From 450 emergency clinical records that got into the Emergency Room, that were analyzed, the biggest exposure among women was verified: 345 (76,6 %). Regarding the protocol proposed by Ministry of Health, the records show that 114 workers (25,3%) made the monitoring and returned in 30 days and just the minority 42 (9,3%) made the complete monitoring. It has been confirmed that this adhesion still is insufficient to the health tracking of this exposed population. These results may support the reflection of administrators and workers to develop strategies that allow a complete monitoring. Some strategies have been already implanted to improve the adhesion of those workers, but in practice, these strategies do not depend solely on the service, but in other measures that permit the awareness of their health process, either by themselves as workers, or within their workplaces. The completion of future studies with others methodologies to demonstrate the belief and values of these workers regarding the
exposure and the complete monitoring, is suggested.