A report of knowledge and vaccination practice on hepatitis b among health education teachers in selected schools of Kathmandu Metroplitan city.
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Teachers knowledge directly affect in the learning process of the students. Hepatitis B is one of the major diseases of the mankind and a serious global public health problem. Many school children may be at high risk of the disease due to low level of awareness and their ris...
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| Summary: | ABSTRACT: Introduction: Teachers knowledge directly affect in the learning process of the students. Hepatitis B is one of the major diseases of the mankind and a serious global public health problem. Many school children may be at high risk of the disease due to low level of awareness and their risk behavior. Teachers play a vital role to educate school students and make them aware about the disease and also the practice of vaccination plays a significant role to combat hepatitis B. Thus this study aims to assess the level of knowledge on hepatitis B among the health education teachers and their vaccination practice. Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among all the 84 health education teachers of private schools of ward no-35 of Kathmandu metropolitan city. Self administered questionnaire was used and the primary data were collected from the respondents and the collected data was analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) and other simple statistical tools. Result: The mean age of the respondents was 27.99 years ranging between the age group 19 to 56. Among the total respondents 65.5 percent were male and 59.5 percent of the respondents were unmarried. Among the total respondents 38.1 percent have done masters while 60.7 percent have done bachelor degree as their educational qualification out of which 71.4 percent are non-health background. 25 percent of respondents have teaching experience of more than 10 years while 56 percent have only a experience less than 5 years. 61.9 percent are secondary level teachers while 32.1 are primary level teachers and 6 percent of respondents teach at both levels. All the respondents have heard about hepatitis but 98.8 percent have heard about hepatitis B out of which 41 percent reported disease as non-curable, 66 percent said hepatitis B is highly communicable disease. Similarly, 91.7 percent of respondents reported that hepatitis B is a disease of liver. About the causative agent of the disease 53 percent reported as virus, 12 percent said bacteria while 16 percent of respondents don't know about the causative agent of the disease. 85.7 percent of respondents said that liver is mainly affected by the disease while 8.3 percent said lungs, 2.4 percent said kidney and 3.6 percent don't know about the organ mainly affected by hepatitis B. Regarding the mode of transmission 77.1 percent reported due to unsafe sexual relation, 90.4 percent due to unsafe blood transfusion, and 49.4 percent due to water borne. Also 65.5 percent reported that hepatitis B can be transmitted from mother to her foetus. Regarding the complication of disease 86.9 percent said as liver failure while 8.3 percent don't know about it. With regards to high risk groups for hepatitis B infection, out of total respondents, 77.4 stated multiple sexual partner, 90.5 percent injecting drugs users, 46.4 percent health personnel, 33.3 percent migrants while 53.6 percent as children. Study on the respondents' knowledge on preventive measures of hepatitis B revealed that 81 percent knew protected sex, 90.5 percent knew avoiding unsafe transfusion of blood and 85.7 percent responded as safe handling of surgical instruments. The study reveals that 98.8 percent said that hepatitis B is vaccine preventable disease. About the complete dose of hepatitis B vaccine 76.2 percent reported as three doses, 11.5 percent five while 8.3 percent don't know about it. The findings of the study showed that 47.6 percent of total respondents have only vaccinated to hepatitis B and among them 19 percent have vaccinated from school vaccination program, 17.9 percent from health camps, 10.7 percent from hospital. Among total number of vaccinated respondents 40.5 percent have only taken the complete dose. Regarding training about hepatitis B only 4.8 percent have taken training. 50 percent of the respondents reported that the vaccination program was conducted in their school. Regarding the sign and symptoms of hepatitis B there was high level of knowledge (74.3 percent) but all the respondents have low level of knowledge on mode of transmission about hepatitis B (60.05 percent). Also the study showed that there was poor practice of vaccination against hepatitis B among the respondents. Conclusion: The result showed that the overall level of knowledge on hepatitis B was low (65.14 percent). Regarding the sign and symptoms of hepatitis B there was high level of knowledge (74.3 percent) but all the respondents have low level of knowledge on mode of transmission about hepatitis B (60.05 percent). Also the study showed that there was poor practice of vaccination against hepatitis B among the respondents. |
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