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Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study

Rabies is a zoonotic disease that is mainly transmitted to humans through dog bites. It remains a major public health threat in many Asian and African countries, including Uganda. The main objective of this study was to investigate awareness, knowledge, and perceptions of communities toward human an...

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Autores principales: Kankya, Clovice, Dürr, Salome, Hartnack, Sonja, Warembourg, Charlotte, Okello, Justine, Muleme, James, Okello, Walter, Methodius, Tubihemukama, Alobo, Grace, Odoch, Terence
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9236570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769323
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.863526
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author Kankya, Clovice
Dürr, Salome
Hartnack, Sonja
Warembourg, Charlotte
Okello, Justine
Muleme, James
Okello, Walter
Methodius, Tubihemukama
Alobo, Grace
Odoch, Terence
author_facet Kankya, Clovice
Dürr, Salome
Hartnack, Sonja
Warembourg, Charlotte
Okello, Justine
Muleme, James
Okello, Walter
Methodius, Tubihemukama
Alobo, Grace
Odoch, Terence
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description Rabies is a zoonotic disease that is mainly transmitted to humans through dog bites. It remains a major public health threat in many Asian and African countries, including Uganda. The main objective of this study was to investigate awareness, knowledge, and perceptions of communities toward human and dog health related to rabies prevention, as well as dog management practices within Masaka district, central Uganda. Data collection involved nine key informant interviews (KIIs) and six focus group discussions (FGDs). Methods used during focus group discussions included qualitative interviews (using open-ended questions), simple ranking, and proportional piling. Data from KIIs and FGDs were analyzed using content analysis in NVivo (version 12.0). This study reveals that community members in the rural settings uses herbal concoctions in replacement or as an alternative to dog vaccination. Furthermore, the study reveals that dogs play the vital roles in the households like as they offer protection to people and household properties, despite being ranked second least among the household animals. The commonest livelihood activity was a small-scale mixed farming. Most of the households kept dogs, but they are ranked at second lowest in terms of economic value among all domestic animals. Free roaming and tethering were the common dog-keeping systems, and home-based feed (food leftovers, bones) was provided mainly to the tethered dogs. Rabies, also locally known as “Eddalu Lyembwa” (that can be translated as “madness of the dogs”), was ranked as the disease of most important among dogs, besides other common diseases such as skin diseases, venereal diseases, worm infestations, and tick infestations. Inadequate vaccination services for both humans and dogs were reported, and dog bite victims traveled a long distance to seek for post-exposure prophylaxis after dog bites. It can be concluded that there is a clear request for periodic mass vaccination campaigns against rabies among dogs, and access to vaccines within reasonable distances by humans after a rabies exposure, but also pre-emptive vaccination for those at high risk, such as veterinarians, needs to be improved.
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spelling pubmed-92365702022-06-28 Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study Kankya, Clovice Dürr, Salome Hartnack, Sonja Warembourg, Charlotte Okello, Justine Muleme, James Okello, Walter Methodius, Tubihemukama Alobo, Grace Odoch, Terence Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Rabies is a zoonotic disease that is mainly transmitted to humans through dog bites. It remains a major public health threat in many Asian and African countries, including Uganda. The main objective of this study was to investigate awareness, knowledge, and perceptions of communities toward human and dog health related to rabies prevention, as well as dog management practices within Masaka district, central Uganda. Data collection involved nine key informant interviews (KIIs) and six focus group discussions (FGDs). Methods used during focus group discussions included qualitative interviews (using open-ended questions), simple ranking, and proportional piling. Data from KIIs and FGDs were analyzed using content analysis in NVivo (version 12.0). This study reveals that community members in the rural settings uses herbal concoctions in replacement or as an alternative to dog vaccination. Furthermore, the study reveals that dogs play the vital roles in the households like as they offer protection to people and household properties, despite being ranked second least among the household animals. The commonest livelihood activity was a small-scale mixed farming. Most of the households kept dogs, but they are ranked at second lowest in terms of economic value among all domestic animals. Free roaming and tethering were the common dog-keeping systems, and home-based feed (food leftovers, bones) was provided mainly to the tethered dogs. Rabies, also locally known as “Eddalu Lyembwa” (that can be translated as “madness of the dogs”), was ranked as the disease of most important among dogs, besides other common diseases such as skin diseases, venereal diseases, worm infestations, and tick infestations. Inadequate vaccination services for both humans and dogs were reported, and dog bite victims traveled a long distance to seek for post-exposure prophylaxis after dog bites. It can be concluded that there is a clear request for periodic mass vaccination campaigns against rabies among dogs, and access to vaccines within reasonable distances by humans after a rabies exposure, but also pre-emptive vaccination for those at high risk, such as veterinarians, needs to be improved. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9236570/ /pubmed/35769323 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.863526 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kankya, Dürr, Hartnack, Warembourg, Okello, Muleme, Okello, Methodius, Alobo and Odoch. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Veterinary Science
Kankya, Clovice
Dürr, Salome
Hartnack, Sonja
Warembourg, Charlotte
Okello, Justine
Muleme, James
Okello, Walter
Methodius, Tubihemukama
Alobo, Grace
Odoch, Terence
Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study
title Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study
title_full Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study
title_fullStr Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study
title_full_unstemmed Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study
title_short Awareness, Knowledge, and Perceptions Regarding Rabies Prevention Among Rural Communities in Masaka District, Central Uganda: A Qualitative Study
title_sort awareness, knowledge, and perceptions regarding rabies prevention among rural communities in masaka district, central uganda: a qualitative study
topic Veterinary Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9236570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769323
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.863526
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