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March 22, 2020International Healthcare Research JournalOpen Access

Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude Towards Hepatitis B Infection Among Health-Care Professionals in A North Indian City

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DSD. N. SrivastavaSKShivalingesh KKAGAnushka Gupta

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Cross-sectional study finds suboptimal Hepatitis B knowledge and vaccination coverage in healthcare trainees, highlighting high occupational exposure risk.

Key Points

  • To assess knowledge, attitudes, and vaccination status regarding Hepatitis B virus infection among medical, dental, and nursing students.
  • Conducted a cross-sectional observational survey among healthcare students in Bareilly, India (N=222; 60 medical, 60 dental, and 102 nursing students).
  • Administered a self-reported questionnaire evaluating Hepatitis B virus awareness and prevention attitudes.
  • Evaluated differences between student cohorts using the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA test with statistical significance defined at p ≤ 0.05.
  • Medical students demonstrated higher knowledge and more favorable attitudes toward Hepatitis B virus infection than dental and nursing students.
  • None of the evaluated student groups achieved complete awareness across all surveyed aspects of Hepatitis B virus transmission and pathology.
  • Vaccination rates were unsatisfactory across all student cohorts, contributing to elevated occupational risk for acquiring Hepatitis B infection.

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Srivastava et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7117f4febe604dd709cf65https://doi.org/10.26440/ihrj/0312.03325
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