Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Hepatitis B Viral Infection Among Addis Ababa University, Regular Undergraduate Students of College of Health Science, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2014
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Hepatitis B is blood born liver infection caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV). It is thetenth leading cause of death among all diseases worldwide and the fifth leading cause of death frominfectious disease worldwide, surpassed only by lower respiratory tract infections, diarrheal diseases,HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis
Objective: To assess knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Hepatitis B viral infection amongAddis Ababa University, regular undergraduate students of College of Health Science.
Method: Institution based cross sectional study was conducted among Addis Ababa Universitystudents of college of Health Science, from October 2013 to June 2014. The study population wasselected among students of College of Health Science undergraduate program, with a sample size of422 students. Data was collected by using self-administered, structured and pre tested questionnaire.Data was cleaned, coded and entered into computer and analyzed using SPSS version 20. The degreeof association between dependent and independent variables was described using crude odds ratio(COR) and adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI).
Results: A total of 415 students were interviewed with a response rate of 98.3%, among them 91.1%had good knowledge, 89.9% had positive attitude and 68.92% had good practice towards hepatitis B.The attitude and practice of the respondents was found to be significantly associated with theiracademic year, however, it was not found to have association with the knowledge of the studyparticipants.
Conclusion: KAP of the study participants in this study was high, though the effect of little lack ofknowledge, positive attitude and good practice can affect the community in which the studyparticipants work now and then.
Recommendations: Hepatitis B prevention and control implementation guideline and hepatitis Bdata has to be derived, and from this guideline each concerned bodies including Health ScienceCollege of universities could work out their own strategy on hepatitis B
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