Clinical Management of Viral Encephalitis

Fernández, Carmen; Solomon, Tom

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“…Most Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus infections are mild in nature (fever and headache). Sometimes Japanese Encephalitis (JE) is accompanying without any apparent symptoms, but the severe disease is associated with rapid onset of high fever, headache, spastic paralysis, neck stiffness, disorientation, coma, seizures and death [4]. Japanese Encephalitis (JE) symptoms start occurring about 5 to 15 days after infection [5].…”

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Attitude of Healthcare Students towards Japanese Encephalitis

Iqbal

Khan

Iqbal

2020

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Objective: To assess the attitude of healthcare students regarding Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in a medical university. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using a convenience sampling method. A self-developed and pre-validated tool was used to collect data from students studying in three healthcare faculties of a university in Malaysia. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 24.0 was used to analyze the data. The level of significance was alpha of 5% (0.05). Results: Of the total of 252 studied student, more female students 177 (70.2%) participated in the present study than the male students 75 (29.8%).. The majority of the final years’ students had a positive attitude than the pre-final year students, with female students of the university had a more positive attitude (77.4%) as compared to the male students (69.3%) when the question was asked about the personal role in the management of JE is essential Conclusion: Overall positive attitude was observed among the studied healthcare students. The present study concluded that pharmacy students had a more positive attitude than the two other faculties students i.e. dentistry and medicine regarding JE.

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