Knowledge, attitude and preventive practice towards tuberculosis among clients visiting public health facilities

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess knowledge, attitude and preventive practice towards tuberculosis. RESULT: More than half of the study participants stated that bacteria are responsible agents in causing tuberculosis and as the same time 12.2% study participants thought that tuberculosis...

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Autores principales: Kasa, Ayele Semachew, Minibel, Alebachew, Bantie, Getasew Mulat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31092282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4292-2
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description OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess knowledge, attitude and preventive practice towards tuberculosis. RESULT: More than half of the study participants stated that bacteria are responsible agents in causing tuberculosis and as the same time 12.2% study participants thought that tuberculosis is not preventable disease. Overall, 54% of study participants had good knowledge, 68% had good attitude but only 48% had good practice in preventing tuberculosis. Compared to many national and international studies, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice towards tuberculosis was not satisfactory. Strengthening of awareness creation and health education program towards tuberculosis is needed.
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spelling pubmed-65214702019-05-23 Knowledge, attitude and preventive practice towards tuberculosis among clients visiting public health facilities Kasa, Ayele Semachew Minibel, Alebachew Bantie, Getasew Mulat BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess knowledge, attitude and preventive practice towards tuberculosis. RESULT: More than half of the study participants stated that bacteria are responsible agents in causing tuberculosis and as the same time 12.2% study participants thought that tuberculosis is not preventable disease. Overall, 54% of study participants had good knowledge, 68% had good attitude but only 48% had good practice in preventing tuberculosis. Compared to many national and international studies, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice towards tuberculosis was not satisfactory. Strengthening of awareness creation and health education program towards tuberculosis is needed. BioMed Central 2019-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6521470/ /pubmed/31092282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4292-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521470/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4292-2
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