Primordial Prevention: Promoting Preparedness for Ebola Virus Disease

Jain, Meena; Sharma, Ankur; Khanna, Tania; Arora, Kapil; Khari, Puneet Mohan; Jain, Vishal

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2015/12615.5682

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“…In our study, the awareness rate of Ebola virus disease was 38.07 %, which is similar to Jain's study that 52.4 % respondents had a higher level of cognition while 2.8 % had a lower level of knowledge about Ebola virus disease [15]. The awareness rate of HIV/AIDS was 81.04 % as same as Sutton's [16] survey, but higher than Navaratna's [17] study.…”

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Assessing the Level of Knowledge about Ebola Virus Disease among College Students

Li¹,

Zhu²,

Tong³

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Objective: Ebola virus disease is becoming a public health emergency of international concern, but the study of knowledge about Ebola virus disease among college students is limited. This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge about Ebola virus disease among college students for offering the strategies to health education of Ebola virus disease. Methods: The stratified cluster sampling method was used and the investigation with self-administration and anonymous questionnaire included knowledge of Ebola virus disease and HIV/AIDS was conducted among 1200 college students who were enrolled from three colleges in Wuhu, China from May to July in 2015. Results: The correct answer rate of epidemic area of Ebola virus disease was the highest (71.37 %), the transmitting vector was the lowest (13.14 %). The average awareness rate of Ebola virus disease (0.381 ± 0.256) was significantly lower than that of HIV/AIDS (0.810 ± 0.220) (P < 0.05). The awareness rate of Ebola virus disease were significantly different in specialties, grades and registered residences (P < 0.05). And in HIV/AIDS, there were also significant differences in specialties, grades (P < 0.05). The medical students’ awareness rate of Ebola virus disease was generally higher than non-medical students’, freshmen and junior and above were higher than sophomore, and there was a decline trend in students from urban, town to rural (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The awareness rate of Ebola virus disease was lower comparing to HIV/AIDS among colleges students. It should strengthen the health education about Ebola virus disease toward different characteristics of college student.

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Assessing the Level of Knowledge about Ebola Virus Disease among College Students

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Tong³

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“…Assessment of knowledge levels among students in health schools to emerging viral infections can be relevant in terms of their preparedness as future healthcare workers and willingness to work during outbreaks of infectious diseases [ 39 , 40 ]. In addition, the assessment of the relation between disease knowledge and attitude towards conspiracy beliefs can have implications on the understanding of health-seeking behavior, including the likelihood to adhere to preventive measures such as vaccination [ 41 , 42 ].…”

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Knowledge of Human Monkeypox and Its Relation to Conspiracy Beliefs among Students in Jordanian Health Schools: Filling the Knowledge Gap on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses

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Background and Objective: The recent multi-country outbreak of human monkeypox (HMPX) in non-endemic regions poses an emerging public health concern. University students in health schools/faculties represent a core knowledgeable group that can be helpful to study from a public health point of view. As future healthcare workers, assessment of their knowledge and attitude towards emerging zoonotic viral infections can be helpful to assess their taught material and courses with potential improvement if gaps in knowledge were identified. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the level of HMPX knowledge, conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging virus infections, as well as their associated determinants among university students studying Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medical Laboratory Sciences, and Rehabilitation in Jordanian health schools/faculties. In addition, we sought to evaluate the correlation between HMPX knowledge and the extent of holding conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging viral infection. Materials and Methods: A convenient sample of university students was obtained through an electronic survey distributed in late May 2022 using the chain-referral approach. Assessment of HMPX knowledge and general attitude towards emerging virus infections was based on survey items adopted from previously published literature. Results: The study sample comprised 615 students with a mean age of 20 years and a majority of females (432, 70.2%) and medical students (n = 351, 57.1%). Out of eleven monkeypox knowledge items, three were identified correctly by >70% of the respondents. Only 26.2% of the respondents (n = 161) knew that vaccination to prevent monkeypox is available. Age was significantly associated with better HMPX knowledge for a majority of items. Older age, females, and affiliation to non-medical schools/faculties were associated with harboring higher levels of conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging virus infections. Our data also indicate that lower levels of HMPX knowledge were associated with higher levels of conspiracy beliefs. Conclusion: The current study pointed to generally unsatisfactory levels of knowledge regarding the emerging HMPX among university students in Jordanian health schools/faculties. Conspiracy beliefs regarding emerging virus infections were widely prevalent, and its potential detrimental impact on health behavior should be evaluated in future studies.

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“…A previous study of college students in India revealed a similar deficiency in knowledge about Ebola virus disease during this outbreak. 5 Studies have also revealed that college students have misconceptions and insufficient knowledge about cervical cancer prevention, 6 HIV transmission, 7 and smoking-related cancers.…”

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Primordial Prevention: Promoting Preparedness for Ebola Virus Disease

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Assessing the Level of Knowledge about Ebola Virus Disease among College Students

Assessing the Level of Knowledge about Ebola Virus Disease among College Students

Knowledge of Human Monkeypox and Its Relation to Conspiracy Beliefs among Students in Jordanian Health Schools: Filling the Knowledge Gap on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses

Assessing the level of knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about Ebola virus disease among college students

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