Onchocerciasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Survey of knowledge, attitude and perception in Bandundu province
| Autor: | Michele Me Murdoch, Fortunat F Ntumba, Didier D Bakajika, Emery En Soa, Dieudonne D Mpunga, Yves Coppieters, Jean-Claude Makenga Bof |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Awareness level Onchocerciasis Santé publique 0302 clinical medicine Ivermectin 030212 general & internal medicine Pathologie maladies infectieuses media_common education.field_of_study lcsh:Public aspects of medicine General Medicine Middle Aged Epidémiologie Democracy Sociological Factors Infectious Diseases Knowledge Democratic Republic of the Congo Female Public Health medicine.drug Adult Kinshasa Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine Population Positive perception lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult Perception medicine Humans lcsh:RC109-216 education Blindness business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health DRC lcsh:RA1-1270 medicine.disease Health Surveys Mont-Ngafula Cross-Sectional Studies Filaricides Attitude Optometry business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Infection and Public Health, Vol 10, Iss 5, Pp 600-607 (2017) Journal of Infection and Public Health, 16 (pii: S1876-0341(17)30052-7. |
| ISSN: | 1876-0341 |
| Popis: | A community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) for fighting onchocerciasis was started in 2003 in the hyperendemic province of Bandundu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); such initiative was supported by the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC). As the APOC stopped at the end of 2015, there was an urgent need to assess the sustainability of an ivermectin treatment. A cross-sectional survey of knowledge, attitude and perception was conducted to determine the awareness level of local population regarding the disease. A multi-stage random sampling technique allowed the selection of 450 heads of households. Most respondents (96.9%) knew about onchocerciasis as a disease. The black-fly was viewed as the causing agent of onchocerciasis by 49.9% of respondents. The most commonly cited clinical manifestations were nodules (34.4%) and pruritus (31.1%), while blindness was the most frequently reported complication (90.7%). Approximately 55.1% of respondents had a good knowledge of onchocerciasis and CDTI. Overall, only 37% of participants had a favourable attitude and 46% a positive perception. Good knowledge was associated with school attendance (adjusted OR=1.9, 95%CI: 1.3-2.8, p=0.001), while education and continuation of treatment were related with good attitude (adjusted OR=9.7, 95%CI:4.8-19.5 and adjusted OR=19.8, 95%CI: 9.7-40.6, respectively, both with p SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
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