| Autor: |
Gül Ruhsar YILMAZ, Turan BUZGAN, Mustafa Aydın ÇEVİK, Ahmet SAFRAN, M. Ali TORUNOĞLU, Esin KULAÇ |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2009 |
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| Zdroj: |
Flora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 27-35 (2009) |
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Introduction: Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been encountered in Turkey since 2002. Education of health-care personnel is very important to control CCHF. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge of health-care personnel who are working in endemic area and working in a secondary or tertiary hospital caring the patients regarding CCHF. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire including 12 questions was prepared and it was applied to health-care personnel working in seven provinces. Eighty-nine doctors, 310 nurses and 112 laboratory technicians were included in the study. Results: 94.3% of doctors’, 80.4% of nurses’ and 77.6% of laboratory technicians’ knowledge level about CCHF were good or very good according to theirself. Tick-bite, contact with blood or body fluid of infected animals and contact with blood or body fluid of CCHF patients were known as transmission routes by 85.7%, 77.1% and 69.1% of health-care personnel respectively. Ribavirin treatment was required according to the 30.3% of doctors while 63.3 of them offered only supportive therapy. 83.6% of personnel described that tick has been removed completely with pleat or tweezers. But 11.9% and 3.3% of personnel told that alcohol or olive-oil can be applied before removing tick, respectively. Conclusion: It is very important to perform continuous education of health-care personnel especially in the epidemic region for early diagnosis of the patient, appropriate management and to reduce nosocomial infection risk. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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