Tsige YosiefMuzeyin Kedija2018-07-112023-11-062018-07-112023-11-062015-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/7893Background: Health care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of acquiring hepatitis Binfection due to occupational exposure. A range of measures and interventions can contribute toreduce HBV transmission to HCWs to low levels. There is effective and safe vaccine againsthepatitis B infection throughout the world many HCWs especially in resource poor countriesremain at risk because they are not vaccinated against HBV. Objective: To assess the knowledge about HBV vaccine and vaccination status against HBV ofnurses at governmental hospital in Addis Ababa. Method: Facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted amonggovernmental hospital nursesof Addis Ababa from March to April 2015. The study population was selected amonggovernmental hospital nurses of Addis Ababa. A total of 272 nurses were included in the study.Data was collected by using self-administered questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed byusing SPSS version 20 statistical software. Descriptive statistics was used for determining results.Chi-square tests and binary logistic regression and multi variable logistic regression analysis wasalso used to characterize the association between the variables. P-value ≤ 0.05 was used forstatistical significance. Results: This study found the mean knowledge score for HB vaccine to be 8.38 with standarddeviation of 2.50. More than half of study participants (51.8%) had poor knowledge about the HBvaccine. Among the study participants only 67(24.4%) were vaccinated at least once in their lifetime. Out of those respondents who were vaccinated, only 35.8% were fully vaccinated. This studyalso identified vaccination status was associated with factors like the hospital where therespondents were working, hospital wards, history of exposure to needles and sharp injury andknowledge of respondents about the vaccine. Conclusion: This study identified knowledge of respondents about HB vaccine unsatisfactory andvaccination status of respondents to be very low. Recommendation: Hepatitis B prevention and control implementation guideline and hepatitis Bdata has to be derived, and from this guideline each concerned bodies including governmentalhospitals could work out their own strategy on hepatitis B. Key words: HBV, Knowledge, vaccination status, Nurses, governmental hospitalsenHBV Knowledge Vaccination status NursesThesis