A study on knowledge of animal bite victims regarding animal bite and rabies attending tertiary care hospital of Rewa City, Madhya Pradesh

Kumar, Sanjeev; Trivedi, Rohit; Saxena, Manoj; Niranjan, Anjana; Kumar, Manish

doi:10.5455/ijmsph.2016.18022016355

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“…7,8 But in contrary to our results, two other studies showed that more than three fourth of animal bite victims were found to have sufficient knowledge of the same. 9,10 These differences in the findings could be attributed to education status of victims Time interval between bite and initiation of wound washing is critical in prevention of rabies. Wound washing procedure should be initiated as soon as possible and preferably within 10 minutes of bite.…”

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“…In another study, Kumar et al observed that 33.1% victims knew that local treatment should be taken as soon as possible. 9 Another similar study done in India by Kole et al stated that only one third of victims know how to wash the wounds after animal bites. 11 In India each animal bite should be considered as a potential rabid animal bite and must be treated as an emergency.…”

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“…But Jain et al and Kumar et al reported 18% and 55% of cases respectively were aware about the fatality rate (100%) of the disease once occurred. 7,9 In our study, victims also did not have the desired information regarding symptoms of rabies. This could be because of low education status of victims as out of the 59 victims who were unaware of the fatality of rabies majority (around 86%) were educated only upto XII class.…”

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“…Similarly, some studies in India (stated that only 70% and 63.7% respectively had ever heard of rabies while Rumana et al in Bangladesh it was found that 65% of subjects were aware of rabies and 99.1% knew a dog bite was the cause of rabies. 9,11,13 Few other authors reported more than 90% of victims. 8,14 In contrary to above results, another study found 20% subjects knew the name of disease named rabies but 63.7% victims knew that rabies is caused by biting of animal.…”

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“…Results of our study is almost in accordance to other study where 33.3% knew that ARV should be taken immediately. 9 Amongst other diseases, animal bites carry the risk of deadly diseases as rabies and tetanus. Knowledge regarding diseases caused by animal bites was assessed amongst the victims.…”

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Information gap amongst animal bite victims and their care givers: a study conducted at anti rabies centers of a city in North India

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Background: Animal bites are a neglected public health problem. The irony is that majority of mortalities are due to unawareness of wound management procedures and prevailing various myths and misconceptions. There is dearth of evidence pertaining to it thus we aim to ascertain the information gap amongst victims regarding various aspects of managing animal bites.Methods: A cross sectional study was undertaken at ARCs of Chandigarh. 100 purposively selected animal bite victims were interviewed from January 2015 to April 2015. Information Gap was ascertained by using pre tested semi structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed using EpiInfo and MS Excel.Results: An overall high information gap of 63.5% was seen amongst the knowledge of respondents’ i.e. materials to be used, time and duration for wound washing; place of reporting; knowledge pertaining to disease caused by animal bites and it’s prevention strategies; vaccination related information; location and timing of ARCs.Conclusions: A definitive information gap needs to be addressed through to implementation of public health promotion based programmes.

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confidence: 99%

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A cross-sectional study on knowledge of epidemiological determinants, prevention and management of rabies among MBBS interns of a tertiary health care center of central India

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Pandey

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Background: According to World Health Organization (WHO), rabies is a vaccine-preventable, zoonotic, viral disease caused by Lyssavirus type 1. It causes 20,000 deaths annually in India. MBBS interns represent the physicians who will graduate and practice medicine from next year. Hence, keeping this in mind, the present study was carried out to assess the knowledge regarding epidemiological determinants, prevention and management of rabies among MBBS interns. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between April 2023 to June 2023 among 200 MBBS interns of Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra. Data was collected by the self-administered, pre-designed, pre-structured questionnaire and was analysed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) software version 25. Results: It was seen that the mean age of participants was 23.34 (±0.859) years. The majority of participants were males (51.5%). The majority (80%) of interns knew the correct causative agent of rabies, while only 40% knew the correct incubation period of rabies. The majority, that is 63.5%, 85.5% and 75% of interns, knew the correct route, site and schedule of post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) respectively. Only 26.5% interns knew the correct management of category I animal bites, while 74.5% and 89% knew the correct management of category II and category III animal bites, respectively. The mean total knowledge score among interns was 13.17±2.63. Conclusions: The study found that interns with experience in dealing with animal bite cases had significantly higher total knowledge scores. To improve knowledge, interactive animal bite case-dealing sessions and regular CMEs should be conducted.

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A study of dog bites among children in the rural area of Goa, India

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Objective: 1. To study the prevalence of dog bites in children; 2. To study knowledge and practices followed regarding prevention and control of rabies among caretakers. Materials and Methods: Study Design: Cross sectional study; Study Participants: Children below 16 years of age; Study Instrument: A predesigned questionnaire was used to ask questions to parents or caretakers of children. Ethical Considerations: Ethical approval was obtained from Institutional Ethics Committee. Statistical Analysis: Data was entered in excel and analysed using SPSS version 22. Frequencies, X 2 tests and odds ratios were calculated. Results: The incidence of dog bites in children was 3.36 %. Most of the bites were in children between 6 -10 years (2.4%) and among males (2.1%). Almost 55.6 % of the bites were unprovoked. Most common site was lower limbs (66.7%). 66.6% of the victims received anti rabies vaccine (ARV). Out of those who received ARV, only 66.7% received all doses completely. Knowledge of rabies and ARV was present in 83% and 74% of the parents respectively. Conclusion: Most of the bites happen in and around the house, which can be easily prevented. Even though free health services are so easily accessible, services are not availed. Health education regarding prevention of dog bites, correct methods of local bite management and compliance of ARV treatment is needed.

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A study on knowledge of animal bite victims regarding animal bite and rabies attending tertiary care hospital of Rewa City, Madhya Pradesh

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Information gap amongst animal bite victims and their care givers: a study conducted at anti rabies centers of a city in North India

Information gap amongst animal bite victims and their care givers: a study conducted at anti rabies centers of a city in North India

A cross-sectional study on knowledge of epidemiological determinants, prevention and management of rabies among MBBS interns of a tertiary health care center of central India

A study of dog bites among children in the rural area of Goa, India

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