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To assess knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding rabies and animal bite management among community members, healthcare professionals, and veterinary practitioners.

August 13, 2021One HealthOpen Access

Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about rabies among the people in the community, healthcare professionals and veterinary practitioners in Bangladesh

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MRMd Sohel Rana AJAfsana Akter Jahan SKS. M. Golam Kaisar

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Cross-sectional survey reveals critical gaps in rabies awareness and bite management across community members and clinicians, highlighting the need for coordinated One Health interventions.

Key Points

To assess knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding rabies and animal bite management among community members, healthcare professionals, and veterinary practitioners.
Conducted an interactive face-to-face cross-sectional survey in three districts of Bangladesh in 2016 using structured questionnaires with both open- and closed-ended items.
Surveyed a total of 1,133 community members, 211 human healthcare professionals, and 168 veterinary practitioners.
Among community members, 49% correctly identified rabies transmission and only 29% knew to wash wounds immediately with soap and water, with poor knowledge significantly linked to lack of formal education and rural living (P ≤ 0.01).
Only 49% of community members, 65% of healthcare professionals, and 60% of veterinary practitioners considered physician consultation and post-exposure prophylaxis as the first-line treatment following animal exposure.
Among healthcare professionals, 23% lacked knowledge of WHO bite categories and 12% lacked proper bite management knowledge; only 29% of veterinary practitioners who treated suspected rabid animals had received pre-exposure prophylaxis.

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Rana et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a96386d209b0854c4fa08a3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100308

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August 13, 2021One HealthOpen Access

Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about rabies among the people in the community, healthcare professionals and veterinary practitioners in Bangladesh

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Authors

MRMd Sohel Rana AJAfsana Akter Jahan SKS. M. Golam Kaisar

Discussion

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Overview

Cross-sectional survey reveals critical gaps in rabies awareness and bite management across community members and clinicians, highlighting the need for coordinated One Health interventions.

Key Points

To assess knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding rabies and animal bite management among community members, healthcare professionals, and veterinary practitioners.
Conducted an interactive face-to-face cross-sectional survey in three districts of Bangladesh in 2016 using structured questionnaires with both open- and closed-ended items.
Surveyed a total of 1,133 community members, 211 human healthcare professionals, and 168 veterinary practitioners.
Among community members, 49% correctly identified rabies transmission and only 29% knew to wash wounds immediately with soap and water, with poor knowledge significantly linked to lack of formal education and rural living (P ≤ 0.01).
Only 49% of community members, 65% of healthcare professionals, and 60% of veterinary practitioners considered physician consultation and post-exposure prophylaxis as the first-line treatment following animal exposure.
Among healthcare professionals, 23% lacked knowledge of WHO bite categories and 12% lacked proper bite management knowledge; only 29% of veterinary practitioners who treated suspected rabid animals had received pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Cite This Study

Rana et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a96386d209b0854c4fa08a3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100308

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