Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Willingness of People Living with HIV/AIDS to Share Personal Health Information to their Community in North West Ethiopia

Menberu, Martha Alemayehu; Kalkay, Teklehaimanot Kiros

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“…An explanation could be from our sample size, which is small and may have not been able to test for the association between these outcomes variables. Our findings are consistent with that of Menberu and Kalkay, who equally found no association between the extent of knowledge and sociodemographic variables 10 contrary; however, to a related study, which found a statistically significant association between knowledge of antiretroviral drugs, marital status, and educational level. 6 Most of our patients (94.3%) had a positive attitude to life.…”

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“… 9 A similar age group was found in a study in Northwest Ethiopia. 10 The females were more than the males (61.7%.). This is similar to findings made by other groups of researchers in a similar study done in Northern Nigeria and elsewhere.…”

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“…Ajayi et al . 11 recorded good knowledge among their respondents, but Menberu and Kalkay 10 reported poor knowledge among their respondents. This could negatively impact on their attitude toward the disease.…”

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The perception of people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome toward human immunodeficiency virus infection: A single-center experience

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Background: The prevention and control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection depend on the prevention of new infections as well as treating currently infected individuals. Adequate knowledge of HIV infection among person living with HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (PLWHA) may be an important tool in reducing spread of the virus. Objective: The objective of the study was to evaluate knowledge and attitude of PLWHA on HIV infection. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital. Knowledge of infection, spread, control, and effect was sought from HIV-positive respondents using a structured questionnaire. Information about their attitude and beliefs was also obtained. Collected data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows, Version 21.0. Results: A total of 70 HIV-positive patients, including 23 (32.9%) males and 47 (67.1%) females with a mean age of 37.7 years were participated. The overall knowledge on HIV transmission, clinical effects, complications, and controls was good in 15.7%, average in 72.9%, and poor in 11.4%. Knowledge of means of transmission was appropriate in majority of them. Majority of 66 (94.3%) patients showed a positive attitude to life. Conclusion: Most of the HIV-positive patients had average knowledge on HIV, and majority had a positive attitude to life.

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“…Since different infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Asian bird flu have emerged, and the rate of bioterrorism has increased the need for health information and knowledge sharing practice by the care providers is getting higher and higher. 23,[31][32][33][34] The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the health-care providers' need of information and information-seeking behavior drastically. 15,[35][36][37] Even though there are limited studies conducted on the informationseeking behavior in other domains, 10,11,38 the study conducted on health professionals' information seeking on the COVID-19 pandemic in the case of low-resource setting teaching hospitals is limited.…”

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<p>Information Seeking on Covid-19 Pandemic: Care Providers’ Experience at the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital, Northwest of Ethiopia</p>

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Background During the pandemic, information is inevitable and important, and having knowledge on pertinent information is very crucial for health-care professionals in order to deliver sustainable and quality health services to their clients, and to combat the virus. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the health-care providers' information seeking behavior on COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study had conducted among 291 respondents. The participant’s characteristics were presented using frequency and percentage. The association between the independent and dependent variables was explained using chi-squared test. Results Out of the 291 respondents, 207 (71.1%) of them had sought information on COVID-19 pandemic. The association between the gender and educational status with the outcome variable was found insignificant. Age (χ 2 =10.6, P =0.011), respondent’s working unit (χ 2 =33.7, P <0.001), profession (χ 2 =12.7, P =0.013), taking computer training (χ 2 =17.44, P =0.000), computer access at work place (χ 2 =7.28, P =0.007), internet access at work place (χ 2 =22.2, P <0.001), and frequency of internet use (χ 2 =17.63, P <0.001) were found significant with COVID-19 information seeking. Conclusion Information seeking behavior was positively associated with computer access, computer training, internet access and frequency of use. Therefore, comprehensive package is required to build the capacity of care providers on computer-related skills. Besides, institutions need to have internet and computer access.

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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Willingness of People Living with HIV/AIDS to Share Personal Health Information to their Community in North West Ethiopia

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The perception of people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome toward human immunodeficiency virus infection: A single-center experience

The perception of people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome toward human immunodeficiency virus infection: A single-center experience

<p>Information Seeking on Covid-19 Pandemic: Care Providers’ Experience at the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital, Northwest of Ethiopia</p>

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