Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices about Trachoma in Rural Communities of Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia: Implications for Prevention and Control

Gebretnsae, Hailay; Mamo, Nega Bezabih; Teklemariam, Tesfay; Gebrehiwet, Tesfay; Berhe, Abera Aregawi; Gebreselasie, Fana; Demoz, Kiros

doi:10.1155/2020/3270530

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“…Those study subjects who had no formal education and grade 1-8 were 36.5% and 58% less likely to have adequate knowledge when compared to the counterpart, respectively. This result is consistent with study done in Kenya in which signi cant proportion of individuals who had no formal and primary education had inadequate knowledge regarding trachoma (25). The possible explanation of this nding would be the fact that people who had higher educational background had better exposure to different media and information.…”

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“…The present study revealed that 21%, 20.1% and 74.4% of the respondents reported correctly that trachoma can be transmitted through contact with discharges, sharing clothes or fomites and unhygienic environment, respectively. This nding is in line with studies done in Kenya in that only one third and 35% of the participants correctly knew that ies and not washing face were important predictors for the transmission of trachoma disease, repectively (25).…”

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Knowledge and attitude of community towards trachoma and trichiasis in Arba Minch Zuria district, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2019

Churko

Asfaw

Zerdo

2021

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Background Trachoma is a preventable and treatable disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis which is the leading cause of blindness in the world affecting mostly the poorest community. Despite so many intervention undertaken on prevention and control for trachoma, Ethiopia is failed to achieve 2020 elimination goal for trachoma. We hypothesized that the knowledge of communities towards trachoma was inadequate in the study area. Methods a community based cross sectional study was conducted in Arba Minch zuria district from December 2019 to June 2020. The total sample size was allocated by probability proportional to size to each kebele based on the number of households they had. Then, systematic random sampling was employed to select 811 study participants from the five kebeles. Data were collected using a pretested interviewer administered structured questionnaire and then entered into EPI/INFO version 7 and exported to SPSS V20 for analysis. Findings: All of the respondents heard about trachoma. Less than one forth 185 (23.2%) of the study subjects had adequate knowledge towards trachoma. One hundred forty eight (18.6%) strongly agreed that trachoma can be transmitted through gene. On the other hand, 240 (30.1%) of the respondents were unsure that trichiasis patients may loss vision if not operated. Factors like education, occupation, walking distance from home to clean water source and wealth index were significantly associated with knowledge status of the participants. Conclusion the proportion of people who had adequate knowledge about trachoma and trichiasis was low. Attention should be given by the district health office, regional government and different stakeholders, who designing and implementing trachoma elimination programs especially improving awareness of community regarding trachoma and trichiasis. Interventions with the F and E components of SAFE strategy are also strongly recommended.

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Knowledge and attitude of community towards trachoma and trichiasis in Arba Minch Zuria district, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2019

Churko

Asfaw

Zerdo

2021

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“…This result was almost similar with studies conducted in Northern Ethiopia (89.2%), Southern Ethiopia (92.6%), and Bangladesh (86%). [11][12][13] However, it is much higher than the research report from Kenya in which about 65.7% of the respondents had ever heard about trachoma. 14 This might indicate that community mobilization and sensitization has been conducted in the study sites.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, Practices and Associated Factors Towards Trachoma Among People Living in Arba Minch Zuria District, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Churko¹,

Asfaw²,

Zerdo³

2021

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Background: Trachoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world affecting the poorest communities. Despite many interventions undertaken on prevention and control for trachoma, Ethiopia has failed to achieve the 2020 elimination goal. Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude, practice and its associated factors toward trachoma infection among people living in Arba Minch Zuria district Gamo zone, Southern Ethiopia. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2019 to June 2020. Data were collected using a pretested interviewer-administered questionnaire from 796 randomly selected individuals. Epi Info version 7 was used to enter and clean the data and exported to SPSS V20 for analysis. A multivariable logistic regression analysis model was fitted to identify factors associated with the outcome variables. Findings: Among 796 interviewed participants, 611 (76.8%) had inadequate knowledge toward trachoma infection and 244 (30.7%) had unfavorable attitude. Individuals who had no formal education (AOR=0.365, 95%CI: 0.212-0.626) and primary education (AOR=0.58, 95%CI: 0.35-0.962) were negatively associated with adequate knowledge towards trachoma infection. Being a farmer (AOR=0.063, 95%CI: 0.008-0.52), merchant (AOR=0.022, 95% CI: 0.003-0.194), student (AOR=0.026, 95%CI: 0.003-0.225) or housewife (AOR=0.03, 95%CI: 0.004-0.256) were negatively associated with adequate knowledge. Those study subjects whose wealth index were lowest (AOR=0.49, 95%CI: 0.27-0.878), second (AOR=0.38, 95%CI: 0.21-0.69) and middle (AOR=0.36, 95%CI: 0.199-0.658) percentiles negatively associated with adequate knowledge. A short distance to fetch water (AOR=2.53, 95%CI: 1.18-5.415) was positively associated with adequate knowledge about trachoma infection. Environmental cleanliness (AOR=2.224, 95%CI: 1.518-3.257), being male (AOR=1.848, 95%CI: 1.332-2.565) and distance from home to health facility (AOR=1.845, 95%CI: 1.308-2.600) were significantly associated with attitude status. Conclusion: Considerable numbers of people have unfavorable attitude and inadequate knowledge about trachoma infection. Awareness creation through community mobilization and sensitization should be strengthened.

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“…In table (6) regarding the relation between total knowledge level about trachoma post educational program and personal data of the studied mothers found that more than half of them who had high knowledge level about trachoma post educational program were urban with statistically significance differences which , and more than two thirty of the studied mothers with high knowledge level about trachoma post educational program had university education, and housewife .…”

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“…Personal data Table (6) presents that there were statistically significance relationship between total knowledge scores of the studied mothers post-educational program and their residence, educational levels, and occupation in which P -value was 0.05, 0.04,and 0.04.respectively.…”

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Effect of Health Educational Program on Mothers’ Knowledge and Practices RegardingCare of Children with Trachoma

Sayed

Mohammed

Ahmed

et al. 2021

Minia Scientific Nursing Journal

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Background: Trachoma is an infectious disease; it begins in early childhood with repeated infection of the conjunctiva by Chlamydia trachomatis, Trachoma occurs in areas with poor personal and family hygiene. Trachoma spreads easily, primarily from child to child and from child to caregiver. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the effect of health educational program on mothers' knowledge and practices regarding care of children with trachoma. Study design: quasi-experimental design (pretest-posttest) used to conduct this study. Sample: The study sample includes 60 mothers caring for children with trachoma. Setting: This study was conducted at outpatient Ophthalmological clinics at Minia University hospital and ophthalmology hospital in Minia City .Tools: Three tools were utilized in this study; the first tool was an interviewing structured questionnaire sheet. The second tool: Mothers' knowledge regarding trachoma, and the third tool: self-reported practices scale. Results the minority (5%) of the studied mothers had high level of knowledge pre-educational program that increased to most (91.7%) of them immediately after the end of the educational program and a majority (88.3%) of them after one month of educational program with statistically significant differences. More than one third (41.7%) of them had good self-reported practices level pre-educational program increased to most (91.7%) of them immediately after the end of the educational program and more than majority (88.3%) of them after one month of an educational program with a highly statistically significant difference. Also, there was a strong positive association between mothers' knowledge and their reported practices regarding trachoma at pre-educational program. Conclusion: The teaching program is effective in improving the knowledge and practices of mother , it found that levels of knowledge and practices of mother's posttest were significantly higher compared to pretest. Recommendations: Health education campaigns concerning trachoma ought to be delivered through mass media. Community participation and self-reliance should be enforced. Health education programs directed towards control of communicable eye diseases should be planned and implemented through school health curriculum.

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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices about Trachoma in Rural Communities of Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia: Implications for Prevention and Control

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Knowledge and attitude of community towards trachoma and trichiasis in Arba Minch Zuria district, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2019

Knowledge and attitude of community towards trachoma and trichiasis in Arba Minch Zuria district, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2019

Knowledge, Attitude, Practices and Associated Factors Towards Trachoma Among People Living in Arba Minch Zuria District, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Effect of Health Educational Program on Mothers’ Knowledge and Practices RegardingCare of Children with Trachoma

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