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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey
Dengue fever is one of the most important viral infections transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Accurate identification of cases and treatment of dengue patients at the early stages can reduce medical complications and dengue mortality rate. This sur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8389296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34436095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11080105 |
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author | Koonisetty, Kranthi Swaroop Aghamohammadi, Nasrin Urmi, Tamanna Yavaşoglu, Sare İlknur Rahman, Md. Shahinur Nandy, Rajesh Haque, Ubydul |
author_facet | Koonisetty, Kranthi Swaroop Aghamohammadi, Nasrin Urmi, Tamanna Yavaşoglu, Sare İlknur Rahman, Md. Shahinur Nandy, Rajesh Haque, Ubydul |
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description | Dengue fever is one of the most important viral infections transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Accurate identification of cases and treatment of dengue patients at the early stages can reduce medical complications and dengue mortality rate. This survey aims to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) among physicians in dengue diagnosis and treatment. This study was conducted among physicians in Turkey as one nonendemic country and Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia as three dengue-endemic countries. The dosing frequencies, maximum doses, and contraindications in dengue fever were examined. The results found that physicians from Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia have higher KAP scores in dengue diagnosis and treatment compared to physicians in Turkey. This may be due to a lack of physician’s exposure to a dengue patient as Turkey is considered a nonendemic country. This assessment may help establish a guideline for intervention strategies among physicians to have successful treatment outcomes and reduce dengue mortality. |
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spelling | pubmed-83892962021-08-27 Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey Koonisetty, Kranthi Swaroop Aghamohammadi, Nasrin Urmi, Tamanna Yavaşoglu, Sare İlknur Rahman, Md. Shahinur Nandy, Rajesh Haque, Ubydul Behav Sci (Basel) Article Dengue fever is one of the most important viral infections transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Accurate identification of cases and treatment of dengue patients at the early stages can reduce medical complications and dengue mortality rate. This survey aims to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) among physicians in dengue diagnosis and treatment. This study was conducted among physicians in Turkey as one nonendemic country and Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia as three dengue-endemic countries. The dosing frequencies, maximum doses, and contraindications in dengue fever were examined. The results found that physicians from Bangladesh, India, and Malaysia have higher KAP scores in dengue diagnosis and treatment compared to physicians in Turkey. This may be due to a lack of physician’s exposure to a dengue patient as Turkey is considered a nonendemic country. This assessment may help establish a guideline for intervention strategies among physicians to have successful treatment outcomes and reduce dengue mortality. MDPI 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8389296/ /pubmed/34436095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11080105 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Koonisetty, Kranthi Swaroop Aghamohammadi, Nasrin Urmi, Tamanna Yavaşoglu, Sare İlknur Rahman, Md. Shahinur Nandy, Rajesh Haque, Ubydul Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey |
title | Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full | Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_short | Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Dengue among Physicians: A Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_sort | assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding dengue among physicians: a web-based cross-sectional survey |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8389296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34436095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11080105 |
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