Investigation of knowledge, attitude and behaviours of employers working at hair dressers, barbershops and beauty saloons in Odemis about diseases transmitted via blood

Morbidity and mortality of infectious diseases is an important health indicator that shows health level of that society. In developing and less developed countries, infectious disease mortality is almost thirty five times more according to developed countries. Human immunodeficiency virus(HIV),hepatitisB(HBV),C(HCV)and D(HDV)are the most common viral diseases that are  infected byblood.These diseases are contagious from human to human via body liquids, not by causes such as contact. All the materials that can host body liquids of other people;such as make-up materials,eating tools,cleaning materials;can contaminate the disease.
The number of researches which describes the information of prevention of diseases transmitted by blood is very few. The risk created bythis contamination way is usually undervalued.This research is planned for determining and evaluating knowledge,attitude and behaviours of employers working at hair dressers,barbershops and beauty saloons about diseases transmitted by blood. Universe of the research is composed of craftsmen, headworkers and apprentices working at hairdressers and beauty saloons inOdemis, Izmir.Research data is collected by talking face to face with 171people working at 80different hairdresser, barbershop and beauty saloon.The questionnaire's composed of 23 questions that include the identifying properties,carrier information and knowledge about blood transmitted diseases of employers.Research data's evaluated with SPSS12.0 package program using number and percentage.The result of this research indicated that 91.8%of the employers were aware that they are under risk in terms of blood transmitted diseases, 97% of them cleaned their tools after each costumer and 54.3% of them did that with a sterilizer. When the education level of the employers was investigated it was found that 50.3% of them had education and 49.7%  of them had no education. In terms of blood transmitted diseases,hairdressers,barbershops and beauty saloons are risky working areas.Controlling the applications in these working areas and educating the employers about prevention of blood transmission diseases can reduce the risk.