Assessment Of Knowledge And Awareness About Leprosy Among Medical College Students In Mewat Region Of Haryana
Artigo
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-200782
ABSTRACT
Introduction-Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease which still remains a serious public health problem due to its ability to cause disability. The prevention of leprosy ultimately lies in the early diagnosis and treatment of the individ-uals having leprosy. Changing leprosy scenario has led to requirement of leprosy education. However the knowledge of medical college students on leprosy remains unknown. Aim:
To assess the post-sensitization knowledge and awareness of medical students after state leprosy sensitization program. Materials andmethods:
A questionnaire based, cross sectional study was conducted among 107 medical students of different years starting from 2ndyear and onwards in the month of July 2017 after state leprosy sensitization program.Results:
Among the medical students 70 (75%) were male students and 37(25%) were female students coming from different years of their admission in med-icalcollege.Regardingthebasicknowledgeofleprosy100%of3ndyear and final year students were having knowledge about the cause of leprosy and 100% of final year and 3rdyear medical students know about other name of Leprosy (Hansen,s disease) respectively.100% of final year ,3rdyear and 2ndyear medical students had knowledge about multidrug therapy (MDT) in in-depth knowledge of leprosy respectively. Regarding the virulence of bacilli 87%, 60% and 63% of final, 3rd and 2nd year medical students had apt knowledge respectively. Conclusion-These observa-tions suggest that the basic and in-depth knowledge of medical students about cause, types, prevention and treat-ment etc. of leprosy shows increasing trend owing to the part of their curriculum. However there is still a need to organize sensitization programs at regular intervals to impart basic and in-depth knowledge to new medical stu-dents, as well as to update the knowledge of those who already had such sensitization programs.
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Ano de publicação:
2018
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