Abstract

Hepatitis B virus infection is a serious health problem worldwide. This risk of acquisition of infection appears to be great in health care workers, especially in nurses and particularly during training, when exposure is maximal. Nurses have an important role in disease control. It is recommended that greater awareness is needed in society about the ways of transmission of hepatitis B infection and preventive measures should be improved. An increase in awareness of the population of the risks of HBV infection and of potential preventive measures will definitely improve the control of HBV infection nationwide and will eventually decrease the associated health care costs. Searches were applied to the following electronic databases: The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group Controlled Trials Register, Blackwell, MEDLINE, PUBMED and ELSEVIOR. Five Iranian journals and conference proceedings were hand searched. You also needed to explain the methods you used for your literature review, including data bases searched, criteria or keywords for searches, number of articles chosen and so forth.