Table 1.

Descriptive data of included studies.

Author, Year	Country	Design	Population	Sample Size	Sampling Strategy	Response Rate (%)	Type of Occupational Health Exposure	Limitations (Per Authors)
Mathewos et al., 2013	Ethiopia	Cross-sectional	Doctor, nurses, laboratory technician, health officer, Anesthetics, Midwives and Physiotherapists	195	Random	NR	Bloodborne pathogen and body fluid	NR
Aminde et al., 2015	Cameroon	Cross-sectional	Nurses	80	Convenience	94	Bloodborne pathogen	Cross-sectional design, small sample size
Ogoina et al., 2014	Nigeria	Cross-sectional predictive correlational	Nurses, physicians and laboratory scientist	290	Convenience	76	Bloodborne pathogen, Body fluid	Measurement Error, Recall Bias
Manyele et al., 2008	Tanzania	Cross-sectional	Nurses, Physicians, medical attendants	430	Randomly selected	NR	Bloodborne pathogen, body fluid	NR
Ndejjo et al., 2015	Uganda	Cross-sectional descriptive	Nurses, Physicians, Midwives, clinical officers	200	Random	NR	Bloodborne pathogen	Recall Bias, cross sectional study, one facility which limits generalizability
Kumakech et al., 2011	Uganda	Cross-sectional descriptive	Nurses, Physicians, Midwives, Medical lab techs and students (nursing and medical)	224	Stratified systematic sampling	58.3	Bloodborne pathogen, Body fluid	Measurement Error, Recall Bias, Involvement of students
Aluko et al., 2016	Nigeria	Cross-sectional	Nurses, Physicians, Nursing Assistants	290	Stratified sampling and simple random sampling	93	General	Cross sectional design, response bias, lack of generalizability
Engelbrecht et al., 2015	South Africa	Cross-sectional descriptive	Nurses, Physicians, Nursing Assistants, Allied health professionals (Social workers, physiotherapists, radiographers and dieticians)	513	Purposive, stratified quota	46	Bloodborne pathogen, Body fluid	Selection Bias, non-probability sampling
Efetie et al., 2009	Nigeria	Cross-sectional survey	Physicians	72	Convenience	72	Bloodborne pathogen	Selection Bias, small sample size
Phillips et al., 2007	Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia	Cross-sectional	Physicians (Surgeons)	84	Convenience	76	Bloodborne pathogen, Body fluid	NR
Bekele et al., 2014	Ethiopia	Cross-sectional descriptive	Physicians (Surgeons)	98	Convenience	75	Bloodborne pathogens	Measurement Error, Recall Bias, Too small sample size
Nwankwo et al., 2011	Nigeria	Cross-sectional	Physicians (trainee surgeons)	184	Convenience	80	Bloodborne pathogens	NR
De Silva et al., 2009	South Africa	Cohort	Physicians, Surgical Assistants	30	Random	41	Bloodborne pathogen, body fluid	Small sample size
Karani et al., 2011	South Africa	Cross-sectional	Physicians(Interns)	53	Convenience	83	Bloodborne pathogen, Body fluid	Too small sample size, Recall bias of participants. Limited to MDs only.
Ogendo et al., 2008	Kenya	Cross-sectional	Surgeons and first assistants	346	Convenience	NR	Bloodborne pathogen	Selection Bias, Measurement Error

Note: NR = Not reported.