Assessment of Basic Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Community on Rabies and Retrospective Survey in and around Ambo Town, West Shoa Zone of Ethiopia

Dabuma, Tamiru; Kabeta, Tadele; Mengist, Hylemariam Mihiretie

doi:10.4172/2161-0703.1000263

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“…Moreover, findings of this study affirm with most literatures that dogs (62.41%) were responsible for majority of bite cases [2,15,17,18,22,24,26,27], followed by cat bite (36.75%. ), and other animals (0.84%) such as monkeys, horses, pigs and rabbit.…”

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“…This can be attributed to the fact that dogs are domesticated and taken cared of mostly by women, since they are more likely the ones who stay at home. Additionally, victims of animal bite cases in Quezon Province are more likely above 15 years old (61.41%) which negated other studies which tell otherwise [9,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Animal bites occur more frequently in adult since it is usually the adult member in the family who is often associated with handling and caring for the animal.…”

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Animal Bite Patterns and Implementation of Rabies Prevention and Control Program in Animal Bite Treatment Center

Garcia¹,

Abundabar²,

Cruz-Cambe³

et al. 2019

Nur Primary Care

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Rabies is a perennial fatal disease and animal bite is the major culprit. Over the decade, animal bite cases have been increasing in the Philippines [1]. This is a retrospective descriptive comparative quantitative research design. It aims to describe the pattern of characteristics of animal bite cases as well as to determine if there is a significant difference in the implementation of Rabies Prevention and Control Program (RPCP) in government and private Animal Bite Treatment Centers (ABTC) in Quezon Province both from the standpoint of patients and healthcare providers. It utilized convenience sampling in selecting the 200 patients and 10 Healthcare Workers (HCW) respondents. Records review and survey questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha of 0.84) were used to draw the information. Animal bite pattern in Quezon Province peaked during May, July and August having an ascending trend from 2016 to 2017. Female and age group above 15 years old are the most common victims of animal bites. Dogs are the most common culprits of animal bites, with the bites predominantly classified as category II. RPCP in government (WAM=4.87) and private (WAM=4.38) ABTC is often implemented as assessed by patients and HCW. Despite that RPCP is often implemented, findings revealed that its implementation is significantly different in government and private ABTC (p-value <.00001 at α level 0.01) as assessed by both patients and HCW. Despite the high extent of implementation of RPCP animal bite cases remains high and in ascending trend (26.35%). Identified areas needing improvement is deemed recommended to be corrected and monitored.

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Animal Bite Patterns and Implementation of Rabies Prevention and Control Program in Animal Bite Treatment Center

Garcia¹,

Abundabar²,

Cruz-Cambe³

et al. 2019

Nur Primary Care

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“…Machew district (rural) with statistical difference in prevalence among urban and rural dwellers. This is higher than the study done in and around Ambo town in 2017 (36.5%) [29]. This might be due presence of poor community attitude towards rabies prevention and control in the current study (53%) which was 49.5% in Ambo town.…”

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Rabies prevention and control practice and associated factors among dog owners in Aksum town and Laelay-Machew district, north Ethiopia: community based comparative cross-sectional study

Gebrezgiher

Berhe

et al. 2018

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Background: Rabies is nearly 100% fatal zoonotic disease. One thousand seven hundred suspected rabies exposures reported in north Ethiopia, Tigray region in 2017, which has the highest rabies prevalence from Ethiopia. Almost half of them were from Central zone only. Of these 38% were in Aksum town and Laelay-Machew. Though Rabies exposure is prevalent in Tigray, there is scanty information on rabies prevention and control practices among dog owners. Thus, this deals with rabies prevention and control practice and associated factors among dog owners. Methods and materials: Comparative community based cross-sectional study was conducted inAksum town and Laelay-Machew district from March 01 to 20, 2018. A multi stage sampling was employed to recruit 558 households. Data were collected via structured and pretested questionnaire. Data were entered into Epi_info_7 and then exported to SPSS_20 for analysis. Both descriptive and inferential analysis was done with 95% confidence intervals at p value of 5% for the final model. Result: The overall prevalence of poor rabies prevention and control practice was 56% [95%CI (50, 61.9)] in urban and 62% [95% CI (57.2, 67.7)] in rural dog owners. In urban; being government employee [AOR (95%CI) = 0.35 (0.13, 0.94)], private employee [AOR (95%CI) =0.39(0.16, 0.97)] and having poor attitude [(AOR (95%CI) =1.84 (1.04, 3.25)] were significantly associated with outcome variable. Whereas in rural dwellers; having no formal education [AOR (95%CI)=6.41(1.1,38.6)], poor attitude [AOR (95%CI)= 2.19 (1.18,4.05)], having one dog [AOR (95%CI)=3.31(1.34,8.15)], travel ≥30 minute to get vaccine [AOR (95%CI)= 4.26 (2.14,8.47]), no history of dog bite exposure [AOR (95%CI)= 4.16(1.49,11.6)] and neighbors as their source of information [AOR (95%CI) =3.64 (1.31,10.1)] have statistical significance with the outcome variable. Conclusion and Recommendation:The prevalence of poor rabies prevention and control practice was higher among rural dog owners. Thus; interventions should be implemented both to urban and rural residents based on the identified findings so as to promote effective rabies prevention and control activities.

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“…We found that 9.2% of the respondents lacked understanding on transmission of animal rabies. Similarly, inconsistencies in rabies knowledge were reported in previous studies conducted in Ethiopia: intact skin [25] and inhalation [25,26].…”

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding rabies and its control among dog owners in Kigali city, Rwanda

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Background Rabies is a zoonotic viral disease that can occur in all warm-blooded animals, including humans. Vaccinating dogs can protect people from contracting rabies. Rabies is a public health threat in Rwanda, but the country does not have information on the epidemiology of rabies. The present study aimed to understand the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of rabies and its control among dog owners in Kigali city of Rwanda. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey using a structured questionnaire among 137 dog owners selected from nine administrative study sites. A two-stage random sampling procedure was used to select the participants. Frequency distributions analysis and a series of chi-square tests of associations as well as binary logistic regressions were performed to determine the important factors associated with the response variables. Results The results showed that 99.5% of respondents knew at least a host susceptible to rabies. Only 22.4% and 21.3% knew that dogs and people can develop rabies, respectively. Nearly 73.6% knew that human rabies can be transmitted through dog-bites and 99% could identify at least a clinical sign of canine rabies. Overall, 81.8% knew that regular vaccination of dogs helps to prevent dog-transmitted human rabies and 43.1% and 26.3% were aware that rabies in humans and in dogs are fatal once clinical symptoms have shown, respectively. Only 69% would observe a dog for 10 days after it bites a man or an animal. Approximately 20.4% were familiar with appropriate cleaning of dog-bites wounds, and 20.6% knew that puppies could receive rabies vaccination before they are three months old. Of those who owned vaccinated dogs, 78% were happy about the cost (US $ ≤ 34) of rabies vaccination. Of all the respondents, 58% had their dogs vaccinated at home by veterinarians while 86% indicated their veterinarians kept rabies vaccines on ice in a cool box. Overall, 53% of the dog owners had sufficient knowledge of rabies, whilst 66% and 17% adopted adequate practices and positive attitudes towards rabies, respectively. Multivariable logistic regression analyses indicated that none of the respondents’ sex, educational level, and the length of dog ownership were statistically associated with their knowledge, attitudes and practices of rabies. Conclusions This study showed that majority of the dog owners had sufficient knowledge and adopted appropriate practices of rabies. However there exist some knowledge gaps among the dog owners particularly on treatment, transmission and control methods. Therefore, rabies awareness campaign is required to upgrade rabies knowledge of the dog owners on rabies prevention and control in Rwanda.

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Assessment of Basic Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Community on Rabies and Retrospective Survey in and around Ambo Town, West Shoa Zone of Ethiopia

Cited by 13 publications

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Animal Bite Patterns and Implementation of Rabies Prevention and Control Program in Animal Bite Treatment Center

Animal Bite Patterns and Implementation of Rabies Prevention and Control Program in Animal Bite Treatment Center

Rabies prevention and control practice and associated factors among dog owners in Aksum town and Laelay-Machew district, north Ethiopia: community based comparative cross-sectional study

Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding rabies and its control among dog owners in Kigali city, Rwanda

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