Knowledge, Attitude and Utilization of Vaccination for Asplenic Patient and Associated Factors Among Health Care Providers in Selected Public Health Institutes of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2024
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2024-12-19
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI) remains a long-term risk in asplenic patients, which may be reduced by appropriate preventive measures such as vaccination, health education and by administrating prophylactic antibiotics.
Objectives: the aim of this study to determine knowledge attitude and utilization of vaccination for asplenic patient among health professionals who are working in selected health facilities of Addis Ababa.
Methods: from June 1 2024 to December 10 2024, research employed a facility based Cross sectional study in Addis Ababa. A total of 374 health care providers randomly selected from conveniently selected 5 Hospitals and 5 Health Centers. Self-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Epi-data version 3.1 was used to enter the data and analysis was done using STATA version 14, software. Descriptive statistics were produced, including frequency, percentage, mean, and median. To protect data confidentiality, no personal information about study participants was collected during data collection.
Results: The aggregate knowledge of the participants was 451.4 (45.1%), indicating that they knew a little about vaccination for asplenic patients. General practitioners, and resident physicians demonstrated significantly higher odds of having good knowledge compared to nurses with 14.13 times (AOR = 14.13; 95% CI: 4.49–44.41; p < 0.001) and 18.18 times (AOR = 18.18; 95% CI: 9.45–34.96; p < 0.001) respectively. Having good Knowledge indicating it as the strongest predictor of vaccine utilization for asplenic patients (AOR = 6.86, 95% CI: 2.56–18.32, p < 0.001).
Conclusion This study shows the overall knowledge of health care provider about vaccination for asplenic patient is low which has significant effect on the utilization of vaccination. So it is better to create awareness about the susceptibility asplenic patients for overwhelming post splenectomy sepsis to improve vaccine utilization.
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Vaccination for Asplenic Patient and Associated