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Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in developing countries like Bangladesh. Female sex workers (FSWs) and their clients are active sources for spreading TB. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge of TB among FSWs in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh. METHODS: It wa...

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Autores principales: Rana, Md. Masud, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, MoinUddin, Sheikh, Wadood, Md. Abdul, Hossain, Md. Golam
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6788046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31604430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4531-0
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author Rana, Md. Masud
Islam, Md. Rafiqul
MoinUddin, Sheikh
Wadood, Md. Abdul
Hossain, Md. Golam
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Islam, Md. Rafiqul
MoinUddin, Sheikh
Wadood, Md. Abdul
Hossain, Md. Golam
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description BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in developing countries like Bangladesh. Female sex workers (FSWs) and their clients are active sources for spreading TB. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge of TB among FSWs in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh. METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study with a sample size of 225 FSWs. The knowledge on TB was measured by six different questions. Chi-square test and multinomial logistic regression model were used in this study to find the associated factors of lack of general knowledge on TB among FSWs. RESULTS: Out of 225 FSWs, 43.1, 34.7 and 22.2% came from urban, rural and slum areas respectively. More than 41% FSWs perceived that TB is a non-communicable disease. A large number of FSWs (76.4%) did not know the spread of TB. It was found that more than 90% FSWs did not have knowledge on latent TB. The χ(2)-test demonstrated that FSWs’ education, monthly family income, age, currently marital status and sex trading place were significantly associated with their knowledge on TB. A remarkable number of FWSs (42.2%) had poor knowledge on TB. It was found that comparatively higher educated FWSs were more likely to have good or fair knowledge on TB than lower educated ones (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed that near to half of FSWs in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh had poor knowledge on TB. Public health authorities should pay due attention and adopt policy for increasing the knowledge on TB among FSWs to reduce the incidence of TB in Bangladesh. Subsequently, advocacy, communication for social mobilization program is very urgent.
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spelling pubmed-67880462019-10-18 Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study Rana, Md. Masud Islam, Md. Rafiqul MoinUddin, Sheikh Wadood, Md. Abdul Hossain, Md. Golam BMC Infect Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in developing countries like Bangladesh. Female sex workers (FSWs) and their clients are active sources for spreading TB. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge of TB among FSWs in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh. METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study with a sample size of 225 FSWs. The knowledge on TB was measured by six different questions. Chi-square test and multinomial logistic regression model were used in this study to find the associated factors of lack of general knowledge on TB among FSWs. RESULTS: Out of 225 FSWs, 43.1, 34.7 and 22.2% came from urban, rural and slum areas respectively. More than 41% FSWs perceived that TB is a non-communicable disease. A large number of FSWs (76.4%) did not know the spread of TB. It was found that more than 90% FSWs did not have knowledge on latent TB. The χ(2)-test demonstrated that FSWs’ education, monthly family income, age, currently marital status and sex trading place were significantly associated with their knowledge on TB. A remarkable number of FWSs (42.2%) had poor knowledge on TB. It was found that comparatively higher educated FWSs were more likely to have good or fair knowledge on TB than lower educated ones (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed that near to half of FSWs in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh had poor knowledge on TB. Public health authorities should pay due attention and adopt policy for increasing the knowledge on TB among FSWs to reduce the incidence of TB in Bangladesh. Subsequently, advocacy, communication for social mobilization program is very urgent. BioMed Central 2019-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6788046/ /pubmed/31604430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4531-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This 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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Islam, Md. Rafiqul
MoinUddin, Sheikh
Wadood, Md. Abdul
Hossain, Md. Golam
Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study
title Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study
title_full Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study
title_fullStr Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study
title_short Knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh: a cross sectional study
title_sort knowledge of tuberculosis among female sex workers in rajshahi city, bangladesh: a cross sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6788046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31604430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4531-0
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