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Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study

BACKGROUND: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in tropical and subtropical region. The study was conducted with objectives to determine the knowledge of first aid methods in snake bite and the perception of snake bite among the medical students of Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal...

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Autores principales: Subedi, Nuwadatta, Paudel, Ishwari Sharma, Khadka, Ajay, Shrestha, Umesh, Mallik, Vipul Bhusan, Ankur, K. C.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6094924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0210-0
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author Subedi, Nuwadatta
Paudel, Ishwari Sharma
Khadka, Ajay
Shrestha, Umesh
Mallik, Vipul Bhusan
Ankur, K. C.
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Paudel, Ishwari Sharma
Khadka, Ajay
Shrestha, Umesh
Mallik, Vipul Bhusan
Ankur, K. C.
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description BACKGROUND: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in tropical and subtropical region. The study was conducted with objectives to determine the knowledge of first aid methods in snake bite and the perception of snake bite among the medical students of Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal. METHODS: We conducted a cross sectional survey among 302 (231 preclinical and 71 clinical) Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) students of Gandaki Medical College using a pretested questionnaire to assess the knowledge of first aid of snake bite based on WHO protocol and perception of snakebite. The study duration was from January to May 2018. The total score of the knowledge was obtained and compared among variables using Mann-Whitney U test. Chi square test was used for comparing the responses with the level of students. P value of < 0.05 was considered as significant. RESULTS: Among 302 respondents, 193(63.9%) were from Mountain districts. The families of 25 (8.3%) respondents were bitten by snakes. The correct responses were significantly higher from the 71 (23.5%) clinical students for most of the questions and the knowledge score of clinical students was significantly higher than the 231 (76.5%) preclinical students. Twenty eight (9.27%) students believed that the snake should be killed after it bites the victim and 25 (8.28%) believed that the snake will capture the image of the offender who teases it and takes revenge later. School books were the commonest source of such knowledge among the preclinical students. CONCLUSION: Most of the preclinical students had inadequate knowledge of first aid of snake bite. The common source of the knowledge was school books which often provide faulty knowledge. Only a few students had negative perception about snakes. Incorporation of proper first aid measures in the textbooks of various levels is essential.
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spelling pubmed-60949242018-08-24 Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study Subedi, Nuwadatta Paudel, Ishwari Sharma Khadka, Ajay Shrestha, Umesh Mallik, Vipul Bhusan Ankur, K. C. J Occup Med Toxicol Research BACKGROUND: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in tropical and subtropical region. The study was conducted with objectives to determine the knowledge of first aid methods in snake bite and the perception of snake bite among the medical students of Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal. METHODS: We conducted a cross sectional survey among 302 (231 preclinical and 71 clinical) Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) students of Gandaki Medical College using a pretested questionnaire to assess the knowledge of first aid of snake bite based on WHO protocol and perception of snakebite. The study duration was from January to May 2018. The total score of the knowledge was obtained and compared among variables using Mann-Whitney U test. Chi square test was used for comparing the responses with the level of students. P value of < 0.05 was considered as significant. RESULTS: Among 302 respondents, 193(63.9%) were from Mountain districts. The families of 25 (8.3%) respondents were bitten by snakes. The correct responses were significantly higher from the 71 (23.5%) clinical students for most of the questions and the knowledge score of clinical students was significantly higher than the 231 (76.5%) preclinical students. Twenty eight (9.27%) students believed that the snake should be killed after it bites the victim and 25 (8.28%) believed that the snake will capture the image of the offender who teases it and takes revenge later. School books were the commonest source of such knowledge among the preclinical students. CONCLUSION: Most of the preclinical students had inadequate knowledge of first aid of snake bite. The common source of the knowledge was school books which often provide faulty knowledge. Only a few students had negative perception about snakes. Incorporation of proper first aid measures in the textbooks of various levels is essential. BioMed Central 2018-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6094924/ /pubmed/30147746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0210-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 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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Subedi, Nuwadatta
Paudel, Ishwari Sharma
Khadka, Ajay
Shrestha, Umesh
Mallik, Vipul Bhusan
Ankur, K. C.
Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study
title Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study
title_full Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study
title_fullStr Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study
title_short Knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study
title_sort knowledge of first aid methods and attitude about snake bite among medical students: a cross sectional observational study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6094924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-018-0210-0
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