Health attitude; Health occupation students; Iran; Prevention; Viral hepatitis; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Hepatitis B/etiology; Hepatitis B/prevention & control; Hepatitis B/psychology; Hepatitis C/etiology; Hepatitis C/prevention & control; Hepatitis C/psychology; Humans; Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional/prevention & control; Male; Students, Health Occupations/psychology; Students, Health Occupations/statistics & numerical data; Surveys and Questionnaires; Young Adult; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Hepatitis B; Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional; Students, Health Occupations; Epidemiology; Health Policy; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Infectious Diseases
Abstract :
[en] BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization seeks to achieve the goal of viral hepatitis elimination by 2030 and lack of general knowledge about viral hepatitis seems to be a barrier to reaching this goal. This study was designed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among Iranian health sciences students in 12 Iranian medical sciences universities using a national survey.
METHODS: This survey was conducted during the second Hepatitis Awareness Campaign, which was held during the Iranian National Hepatitis Week (October 22-28, 2016). Students who visited our booths and were willing to participate in our survey were selected using convenience sampling and their HBV- and HCV-related KAP were evaluated.
RESULTS: Two thousand one hundred fifty-six health sciences students with mean age of 21.24 years participated in our survey. The mean KAP scores were 7.35 (out of 10), 4.88 (possible score, -20 to +20), and 5.67 (out of 9). Students with experience of accidental exposures to blood (21.6%) had better KAP scores compared with the students without such experiences. The mean KAP scores were associated with subjects' year of education, field of study, university, and province (P < .05).
CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed that HBV- and HCV-related KAP in a sample of Iranian health sciences students was not satisfying. The results also demonstrated priority of needing intervention regarding KAP in some subject areas, lower years of education, and some universities compared with others.
Disciplines :
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Author, co-author :
Karimi-Sari, Hamidreza; Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran, Iran
Bayatpoor, Mohammad Ehsan; Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran, Iran
Aftabi Khotbesara, Maryam; Student Research Committee, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
Ebrahimi, Motahare Sadat; Student Research Committee, Shaded University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Sattari, Zahra; Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Sattari, Paria; Student's Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Saberi Shakib, Narges; Student Research Committee, Artesh University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Taheri, Hanie; Student's Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abdolrahim Poor Heravi, Sina; Student's Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Dinizadeh, Mahsa; Student's Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Vahed, Pedram; Student Research Committee, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
Shirsavar, Kiyana; Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Hosseini, Hediye; Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Rashvand, Sara; Student Research Committee, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
Jalaei, Dorsa; Student Research Committee, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
Azarafraz, Mahdi; Young Researchers Elite Club, Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran
Naderi, Mohebullah; Young Researchers Elite Club, Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran
Pourzakaria, Mahtab; Student Research Committee, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
Firoozbakht, Mohammad; Student Research Committee, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran
Khosravi, Mohammad Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège ; Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran, Iran
Alavian, Seyed Moayed; Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: Alavian@thc.ir
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