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A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B is a disease that affects the liver and is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Hepatitis B is a serious public health problem in China. The objective of this study was to assess knowledge of and behaviours towards the transmission and prevention of hepatitis B of new milit...

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Autores principales: Li, Yuan-Yuan, Chen, Wei-Wei, Wei, Lei, Xie, Yang-Xin, Wang, Li-Feng, Fu, Jun-Liang, Wang, Fu-Sheng
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28116112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-016-0110-5
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author Li, Yuan-Yuan
Chen, Wei-Wei
Wei, Lei
Xie, Yang-Xin
Wang, Li-Feng
Fu, Jun-Liang
Wang, Fu-Sheng
author_facet Li, Yuan-Yuan
Chen, Wei-Wei
Wei, Lei
Xie, Yang-Xin
Wang, Li-Feng
Fu, Jun-Liang
Wang, Fu-Sheng
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description BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B is a disease that affects the liver and is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Hepatitis B is a serious public health problem in China. The objective of this study was to assess knowledge of and behaviours towards the transmission and prevention of hepatitis B of new military recruits in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 800 new military recruits. A self-administered, structured questionnaire was used to collect information, and 727 questionnaires were returned completed. Analysis was performed using SPSS 18.0, and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: Of the respondents, 665 (91.5%) were male and 62 (8.5%) were female. The mean age was 18.9 ± 1.7 years. A total of 608 respondents (83.6%) demonstrated poor knowledge and 119 (16.4%) adequate knowledge about HBV. Older age, female and higher education level were statistically associated with a higher mean knowledge score. Multivariate logistic regression showed that age (OR = 3.040, 95%CI 1.724–5.359, P < 0.001) and gender (OR = 1.791, 95%CI 1.325–2.421, P < 0.001) were significantly associated with appropriate behavioural practices towards prevention of HBV. CONCLUSION: Against a backdrop of high HBV prevalence in China, new military recruits had poor knowledge of HBV. New recruits need better education about HBV to assist in reducing and preventing HBV infection.
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spelling pubmed-52419742017-01-23 A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China Li, Yuan-Yuan Chen, Wei-Wei Wei, Lei Xie, Yang-Xin Wang, Li-Feng Fu, Jun-Liang Wang, Fu-Sheng Mil Med Res Research BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B is a disease that affects the liver and is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Hepatitis B is a serious public health problem in China. The objective of this study was to assess knowledge of and behaviours towards the transmission and prevention of hepatitis B of new military recruits in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 800 new military recruits. A self-administered, structured questionnaire was used to collect information, and 727 questionnaires were returned completed. Analysis was performed using SPSS 18.0, and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: Of the respondents, 665 (91.5%) were male and 62 (8.5%) were female. The mean age was 18.9 ± 1.7 years. A total of 608 respondents (83.6%) demonstrated poor knowledge and 119 (16.4%) adequate knowledge about HBV. Older age, female and higher education level were statistically associated with a higher mean knowledge score. Multivariate logistic regression showed that age (OR = 3.040, 95%CI 1.724–5.359, P < 0.001) and gender (OR = 1.791, 95%CI 1.325–2.421, P < 0.001) were significantly associated with appropriate behavioural practices towards prevention of HBV. CONCLUSION: Against a backdrop of high HBV prevalence in China, new military recruits had poor knowledge of HBV. New recruits need better education about HBV to assist in reducing and preventing HBV infection. BioMed Central 2017-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5241974/ /pubmed/28116112 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-016-0110-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Li, Yuan-Yuan
Chen, Wei-Wei
Wei, Lei
Xie, Yang-Xin
Wang, Li-Feng
Fu, Jun-Liang
Wang, Fu-Sheng
A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China
title A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China
title_full A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China
title_fullStr A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China
title_full_unstemmed A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China
title_short A survey of knowledge about hepatitis B among new military recruits in China
title_sort survey of knowledge about hepatitis b among new military recruits in china
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28116112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-016-0110-5
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