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Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: In 2013, Lepra Bangladesh (a non-government organization) and the National Leprosy Programme of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh implemented a 3 years project entitled “2015 and Beyond: Poverty Reduction through Streng...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6827226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31679517 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4525-z |
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author | Kabir, Humayun Hossain, Shahed |
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description | BACKGROUND: In 2013, Lepra Bangladesh (a non-government organization) and the National Leprosy Programme of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh implemented a 3 years project entitled “2015 and Beyond: Poverty Reduction through Strengthened Health Systems”. The aims of this Health System Strengthening (HSS) project were to improve quality of leprosy services through service delivery, capacity development, curriculum development, improved collaboration, coordination, operational research and knowledge sharing to identify and treat leprosy in order to contribute to strengthen existing health systems. We evaluated the changes in knowledge of primary and community level healthcare providers about cardinal signs, course of leprosy treatment, and drug use for paucibacillary (PB) and multibacillary (MB) leprosy cases. METHODS: We conducted two surveys using purposive sampling technique in two pilot districts: Bogra and Moulvibazar. The first survey was conducted before implementing the HSS project from March to June 2014 among 98 providers. The end-line survey was conducted in November 2015 and included 49 providers. The interview was conducted using the same pre-tested structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics followed by further analysis was done including proportions, 90% confidence intervals, and p values were calculated for the selected variables. RESULTS: The primary and community level healthcare providers demonstrated significant increases in knowledge on one cardinal sign (definite loss of sensation in a pale -hypopigmented- or reddish skin patch), doses and courses for the adult PB and MB cases and duration of Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) course at the end line compared to the beginning of the project. All the providers except TB and Leprosy Control Assistants demonstrated statistically significant decreases in knowledge at the end-line compared to the baseline about supportive counseling. CONCLUSIONS: HSS activities including training and capacity building of the providers recorded significant increase of knowledge on types of leprosy, one cardinal sign, courses of MDT and drug use for the adult PB and MB cases and use MDT for leprosy treatment among the service providers at the end-line. Any health systems strengthening project should incorporate a capacity building approach within the programme all through. |
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spelling | pubmed-68272262019-11-07 Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh Kabir, Humayun Hossain, Shahed BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: In 2013, Lepra Bangladesh (a non-government organization) and the National Leprosy Programme of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh implemented a 3 years project entitled “2015 and Beyond: Poverty Reduction through Strengthened Health Systems”. The aims of this Health System Strengthening (HSS) project were to improve quality of leprosy services through service delivery, capacity development, curriculum development, improved collaboration, coordination, operational research and knowledge sharing to identify and treat leprosy in order to contribute to strengthen existing health systems. We evaluated the changes in knowledge of primary and community level healthcare providers about cardinal signs, course of leprosy treatment, and drug use for paucibacillary (PB) and multibacillary (MB) leprosy cases. METHODS: We conducted two surveys using purposive sampling technique in two pilot districts: Bogra and Moulvibazar. The first survey was conducted before implementing the HSS project from March to June 2014 among 98 providers. The end-line survey was conducted in November 2015 and included 49 providers. The interview was conducted using the same pre-tested structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics followed by further analysis was done including proportions, 90% confidence intervals, and p values were calculated for the selected variables. RESULTS: The primary and community level healthcare providers demonstrated significant increases in knowledge on one cardinal sign (definite loss of sensation in a pale -hypopigmented- or reddish skin patch), doses and courses for the adult PB and MB cases and duration of Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) course at the end line compared to the beginning of the project. All the providers except TB and Leprosy Control Assistants demonstrated statistically significant decreases in knowledge at the end-line compared to the baseline about supportive counseling. CONCLUSIONS: HSS activities including training and capacity building of the providers recorded significant increase of knowledge on types of leprosy, one cardinal sign, courses of MDT and drug use for the adult PB and MB cases and use MDT for leprosy treatment among the service providers at the end-line. Any health systems strengthening project should incorporate a capacity building approach within the programme all through. BioMed Central 2019-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6827226/ /pubmed/31679517 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4525-z 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kabir, Humayun Hossain, Shahed Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh |
title | Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh |
title_full | Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh |
title_fullStr | Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh |
title_short | Knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of Bangladesh |
title_sort | knowledge on leprosy and its management among primary healthcare providers in two districts of bangladesh |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6827226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31679517 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4525-z |
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