TITOLO COMPLETO
Scienze Direct, Iranian Society of ophtalmology
The incidence of needle stick and sharp injuries and their associations with visual function among hospital nurses
by
Mohammad Ghasemi(1) , Mehdi Khabazkhoob(2) , Hassan Hashemi(3), Abbasali YektaPayam Nabovati(4)
1 Health Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Noor Research Center for Ophthalmic Epidemiology, Noor Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran
4 Refractive Errors Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
ARGOMENTO
Objective:To determine the one-year incidence of needle stick and sharp injuries (NSIs and SIs) and their associations with visual function amongIranian nurses Visual function indices including distance and near best corrected visual acuities (BCVAs), color vision,stereoacuity, distance and near heterophorias, accommodative amplitude and facility, contrast sensitivity (CS) for high and low spatial fre-quencies (SFs), near point of convergence (NPC), saccadic and pursuit eye movements, distance and near convergence and divergence fusionalreserves and peripheral vision were evaluated through optometric examinations using standard protocols
