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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department

The Colombian program to end trachoma implements the component F of the SAFE strategy in the Vaupés department of the Amazon rainforest. Cultural, linguistic, and geographical barriers and the coexistence of an ancestral medical system demand the technical and sociocultural adaptation of this compon...

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Autores principales: Trujillo-Trujillo, Julián, Meza-Cárdenas, Mónica, Sánchez, Sol Beatriz, Zamora, Sara Milena, Porras, Alexandra, López de Mesa, Clara Beatriz, Bernal Parra, Luz Mery, Bernal Lizarazú, María Consuelo, Miller, Hollman, Silva, Juan Carlos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10001660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36901643
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054632
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author Trujillo-Trujillo, Julián
Meza-Cárdenas, Mónica
Sánchez, Sol Beatriz
Zamora, Sara Milena
Porras, Alexandra
López de Mesa, Clara Beatriz
Bernal Parra, Luz Mery
Bernal Lizarazú, María Consuelo
Miller, Hollman
Silva, Juan Carlos
author_facet Trujillo-Trujillo, Julián
Meza-Cárdenas, Mónica
Sánchez, Sol Beatriz
Zamora, Sara Milena
Porras, Alexandra
López de Mesa, Clara Beatriz
Bernal Parra, Luz Mery
Bernal Lizarazú, María Consuelo
Miller, Hollman
Silva, Juan Carlos
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description The Colombian program to end trachoma implements the component F of the SAFE strategy in the Vaupés department of the Amazon rainforest. Cultural, linguistic, and geographical barriers and the coexistence of an ancestral medical system demand the technical and sociocultural adaptation of this component. A cross-sectional survey combined with focus-group discussions to understand the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the indigenous population related to trachoma was conducted in 2015. Of the 357 heads of households that participated, 45.1% associated trachoma with a lack of hygiene, and 94.7% associated the concept of hygiene with taking one or more body baths per day, using commercial or handcrafted soap. In total, 93% reported cleaning their children’s faces and eyes more often when they have conjunctivitis, but 66.1% also did this with clothes or towels in use, and 52.7% of people shared towels; in total, 32.8% indicated that they would use ancestral medicine to prevent and treat trachoma. The SAFE strategy in Vaupés requires an intercultural approach to facilitate stakeholder support and participation to promote general and facial hygiene, washing clothes with soap, and not sharing towels and clothes to dry and clean children’s faces for effective and sustainable elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. This qualitative assessment facilitated an intercultural approach locally and in other Amazonian locations.
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spelling pubmed-100016602023-03-11 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department Trujillo-Trujillo, Julián Meza-Cárdenas, Mónica Sánchez, Sol Beatriz Zamora, Sara Milena Porras, Alexandra López de Mesa, Clara Beatriz Bernal Parra, Luz Mery Bernal Lizarazú, María Consuelo Miller, Hollman Silva, Juan Carlos Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The Colombian program to end trachoma implements the component F of the SAFE strategy in the Vaupés department of the Amazon rainforest. Cultural, linguistic, and geographical barriers and the coexistence of an ancestral medical system demand the technical and sociocultural adaptation of this component. A cross-sectional survey combined with focus-group discussions to understand the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the indigenous population related to trachoma was conducted in 2015. Of the 357 heads of households that participated, 45.1% associated trachoma with a lack of hygiene, and 94.7% associated the concept of hygiene with taking one or more body baths per day, using commercial or handcrafted soap. In total, 93% reported cleaning their children’s faces and eyes more often when they have conjunctivitis, but 66.1% also did this with clothes or towels in use, and 52.7% of people shared towels; in total, 32.8% indicated that they would use ancestral medicine to prevent and treat trachoma. The SAFE strategy in Vaupés requires an intercultural approach to facilitate stakeholder support and participation to promote general and facial hygiene, washing clothes with soap, and not sharing towels and clothes to dry and clean children’s faces for effective and sustainable elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. This qualitative assessment facilitated an intercultural approach locally and in other Amazonian locations. MDPI 2023-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10001660/ /pubmed/36901643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054632 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Trujillo-Trujillo, Julián
Meza-Cárdenas, Mónica
Sánchez, Sol Beatriz
Zamora, Sara Milena
Porras, Alexandra
López de Mesa, Clara Beatriz
Bernal Parra, Luz Mery
Bernal Lizarazú, María Consuelo
Miller, Hollman
Silva, Juan Carlos
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department
title Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department
title_full Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department
title_fullStr Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department
title_short Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department
title_sort knowledge, attitudes, and practices of hygiene and the prevention of trachoma in the indigenous population of the colombian amazon vaupés department
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10001660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36901643
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054632
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