Healthcare workers knowledge and diagnostic practices: a need for dengue and chikungunya training in Moshi Municipality, Kilimanjaro Tanzania
| Autor: | Debora C. Kajeguka, Samwel Saringe, Maseke R. Mgabo, Basiliana Emidi, Dickson D. Kagirwa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male 0301 basic medicine Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Health Personnel viruses education lcsh:Medicine Virus diseases Dengue virus medicine.disease_cause Tanzania General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Dengue fever Dengue 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Diagnostic practices Environmental health parasitic diseases Health care Global health Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Chikungunya lcsh:Science (General) lcsh:QH301-705.5 biology business.industry lcsh:R virus diseases General Medicine Dengue Virus biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Vaccination Research Note Knowledge 030104 developmental biology lcsh:Biology (General) Chikungunya Fever Female Clinical Competence business Chikungunya virus lcsh:Q1-390 |
| Zdroj: | BMC Research Notes BMC Research Notes, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1756-0500 |
| Popis: | Objective Dengue and chikungunya virus diseases are becoming an increasingly important global health threats and are continuously expanding their geographical range. The study aims to investigate knowledge and diagnostic practice of dengue and chikungunya fever among healthcare workers in Moshi Municipality. Results Most of healthcare workers heard of chikungunya and dengue 146 (71.2%) and 203 (99%) respectively. Ninety-five (46.3%) and 152 (74.1%) had good knowledge regard chikungunya and dengue respectively. One hundred and twenty-two of HCWs 122 (59.5%) reported that there is no vaccination for dengue virus. Most HCWs 199 (97.0%) reported that the absence of diagnostic tool for dengue virus lead to difficult in managing the infection. The finding of this study showed that there is insufficient knowledge regarding chikungunya while knowledge regarding dengue is relatively fair. This calls for training regarding these infections. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4074-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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