A descriptive type of cross-sectional study was conducted in a village Gohordo of Gabtoli Upazila, Bogra to assess the knowledge and awareness of people of age above 18 years and above about "bird flu", its modes of transmission and prevention, by an interviewer administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was pretested and data were collected using purposive sampling technique. In this study it was found that out of 418 people, 231(55.26%) were female and the rest 187 (44.74%) were male. Majority of the respondents 226 (54.06%) were in the age group of 20-40 years, followed by 29.19%, 8.85% and7.89% were in the age groups of 40-60,<20 and above>60 years respectively. More than half; 226 (54.06%) of the people heard the term ‘bird flu'; majority of them (95.13%) as a disease. Among 226, 193(85.39) respondents know that the disease may transmit to human population. But only 32, (30%) people think that this disease is transmitted by keeping infected birds & suspected poultry, followed by 19.02% who think that it transmitted by caring & culling poultry. Among the people who heard the name of the disease,95 (42%) people had no knowledge about the signs and symptoms of the disease and only 20.35% respondents knew poultry carrying people and poultry meat eaters as "susceptible groups" getting infection. About 195 (77.43%) people know that this disease is preventable. About 55.31% and 37.16% people think, partially cooked meat and half boiled egg respectively may spread the disease to man. There is a strong association of literacy with the knowledge of the disease (p<0.05). This study will emphasize the proper health education to create awareness of the people for prevention of bird flue. DOI: 10.3329/taj.v22i1.5019 TAJ 2009; 22(1): 54-58
The purpose of the cross sectional descriptive type of study was to document the childhood immunization coverage and its association with parental socio-demographic characteristics. For this, 160 parents of 160 children from a selected rural area of Chittagong, Bangladesh were selected by purposive sampling technique and data were collected by face to face interview using a semi-structured questionnaire. Immunization coverage of the children was about 82%. Parental age, gender and their decision (governmental or private service from where immunization done) were significantly associated with the children immunization coverage (p < 0.01, p < 0.01 and p < 0.05, respectively). The result may be helpful to policymakers for future planning and implementation of children immunization programme to improve children immunization coverage in Bangladesh.Mediscope Vol. 4, No. 1: Jan 2017, Page 25-29
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