Knowledge and perceptions of brucellosis and human behavior of occupational exposure person and patients with brucellosis in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province / 中华地方病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the knowledge and perceptions of brucellosis and human behavior in different populations in Jingyuan County Gansu Province,and to provide a scientific basis for carrying out health education and prevention accurately on brucellosis.Methods In 2015,using two-stage cluster sampling method,nine towns with more accumulative incidence of brucellosis in the past 3 years in Jingyuan Country were selected,5 villages were selected from each town,occupational exposure and patients with brucellosis were selected in each village as respondents.A questionnaire survey was carried out to collect basic information,brucellosis related knowledge,population's behavio.Results The overall awareness rate of prevention and control knowledge on brucellosis was 44.10％ (12 943/29 348),included 809 people with the occupation exposure population and 203 patients with brucellosis,among them,the rate of patients with brucellosis knowledge was 50.40％ (2 967/5 887),occupational exposure population was 42.52％ (9 976/23 461);There were significant differences in the awareness rate of knowledge on prevention and control of brucellosis in population of different gender,age,education and years of work experience (x2 =84.413,166.100,207.200,16.822,P ＜ 0.01);of the following parametersshared water,peel dead lamb,How to deal with flow products,treatment of abortion without gloves,masks,not wearing gloves,masks when lambing ,to give livestock vaccines and drugs,eat dead cow,lamb,and sale of diseased,dead livestock,slaughter livestock,there were statistical significant differences between patients with brucellosis and exposure people (x2 =13.940,27.965,30.031,19.575,22.597,21.139,14.524,436.450,8.482,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The occupational exposure population has a low knowledge awareness rate;high risk behaviors have higher risk of brucellosis infection in Jingyuan County.We should carry out health education and high-risk behavior intervention in targeted population.