Health literacy in crisis-affected Afghanistan: a quantitative study on beliefs and barriers

Harsch, Stefanie

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckx187.063

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“…[24252627] This may be due to cultural barriers or poor health literacy. [28] The mean time between onset of symptoms and death was 6.7 days, which suggest a fast deterioration of general condition with CCHF, in agreement with previous study in Iran (7 days). [24] There were no difference between IgM + and/or IgG + and death.…”

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Investigation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in patients admitted in Antani Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2017–2018

2019

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Background: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is the most medically significant hemorrhagic fever. Afghanistan as an endemic region of CCHF has shown a rapidly growing incidence of the CCHF recently, but there is no data on the characteristic of the disease in this country, here we study the epidemiological, clinical, and paraclinical features of this disease in patients with CCHF, based on the collected data from the patients document records from March 2017 to January 2018 in the referral infectious diseases hospital of Afghanistan (Kabul Antani Hospital). Methods: A cross-sectional study in 120 patients admitted in Kabul ANTANI hospital was carried out from March 2017 to January 2018. All of the patients were included based on the standard case definitions by World Health Organization. Results: Among the 120 patients admitted to CCHF ward, 29 were confirmed by ELISA (18% IgM, 8% IgG+) and the reminders defined as “probable cases” according to WHO case definition. Case fatality rates were calculated as 15% and the overall mean ages were 35 years. The peak of the disease incidence occurred between August and July. Almost all patients reported fever, bleeding, and thrombocytopenia. Conclusions: Early detection plays an important role in patients' outcome. Considering that the most cases of the disease are associated with some contacts around Eid-Adha and death attributable to CCHF usually occur in the first 7 days of disease onset, educating population, and especially slaughters, gloves using by housewives during contacts with meat or animal products, and early detection and immediate treatment would have essential roles in primary and secondary prevention of CCHF. Hemorrhagic manifestations and low platelet count provide a clue to early detection of disease. Vaginal bleeding can be a sign of CCHF and needs immediate action.

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Investigation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in patients admitted in Antani Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2017–2018

2019

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“…The most important factors which play a role in the prevalence of hypertension are lack of knowledge, negative attitudes and malpractices which is also the situation in this case study. Therefore, KAP surveys have been widely used as public health research tools to evaluate health related KAP 8 .The KAP survey remains a useful tool in our environment where the level of health information and literacy remains low and unquantified 9 . Moreover, hypertension knowledge and practice plays a significant role in controlling high blood pressure and in preventing its long term complications and comorbidity 10 .…”

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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Hypertension amongst Apparently Healthy Adults in a Rural Setting in Rivers State

Chidinma¹

2021

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Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The prevalence of hypertension is increasing in our environment. The objective of this study is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of hypertension, which is a crucial element of hypertension control but little information is available from developing countries where hypertension has lately been recognised as a major health problem. Therefore, we examined KAP on hypertension amongst apparently healthy adult population. A cross-sectional study was conducted amongst 107 adults- 80 females and 27 males between the ages of 18years and 80years for a period of 3 months using random sampling. KAP score about hypertension was deduced from a set of KAP related questions/questionnaire. Results show that 74.8%were females and 25.2% were males. About 46.7% of the respondents were self-employed followed by 17.8% unemployed and 6.5% were students. More than half (78.5%) of the respondents had proper knowledge on hypertension. Almost all (90.7%) had positive attitude toward. Hypertension. About 13.1% never checked their blood pressure except for when they get to the hospital for some other reasons, 13.1% also neither exercised nor consulted a health care provider. Most of the participants (51.4%) never consumed alcohol nor smoked (91.6%).

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“…11 The KAP survey is useful in context of Afghanistan where population level health information and health literacy remains low and unquantified. 12 Beside lack of health related knowledge, the individual attitudes and other cultural factors affect healthcare seeking behavior. 12 Moreover, hypertension related knowledge and practice plays a significant role in controlling HBP and in preventing its long-term complications and co-morbidity.…”

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“…12 Beside lack of health related knowledge, the individual attitudes and other cultural factors affect healthcare seeking behavior. 12 Moreover, hypertension related knowledge and practice plays a significant role in controlling HBP and in preventing its long-term complications and co-morbidity. 13 With this reasoning, to generate useful scientific data, a KAP survey was conducted.…”

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Evaluation of hypertension related knowledge, attitudes and practices at community level in Kabul

Bashaar¹,

Saleem²,

Thawani³

et al. 2019

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Background: Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes, and practices plays key role in hypertension control. Since little data is available from Kabul, Afghanistan, hence this study was planned to generate scientific data about it. Methods:A cross-sectional, descriptive, questionnaire based survey was designed to cover the study participants from general public of Kabul City. A 30 item pretested questionnaire was served to collect the data.Results: A total of 201 out of 384 adult individuals of either gender volunteered to participate in the survey of which > 61% were women. Out of all interviewed individuals 33 had the history of hypertension of which 24 (72.2%) of them were women. Significant association (p=0.036) was observed between gender and high blood pressure. The majority of hypertensive respondents were aged >45 years, where significance (p=0.017) was found between age and high blood pressure. More than half of the hypertensive population was jobless at the time of survey and nearly 46% had a positive family history of hypertension. Overall, the hypertension related knowledge among respondents was found to be adequate. Positive attitudes and appropriate practices were found to be existed during the analysis. Interestingly 98.5% of the interviewed participants believed that daily exercise had a beneficial role in hypertension control. About 65% participants knew the correct value of normal blood pressure (120/80 mmHg). Conclusion:Sufficient awareness should be created among the public, public health authorities, medical practitioners, and pharmacists to inform, educate, and inform the public comprehensively about hypertension and its associated consequences.

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Health literacy in crisis-affected Afghanistan: a quantitative study on beliefs and barriers

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Investigation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in patients admitted in Antani Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2017–2018

Investigation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in patients admitted in Antani Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2017–2018

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Hypertension amongst Apparently Healthy Adults in a Rural Setting in Rivers State

Evaluation of hypertension related knowledge, attitudes and practices at community level in Kabul

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