Assessment of compliance to anti-rabies vaccination of post exposure prophylaxis among animal bite cases reporting to dedicated anti rabies clinic of a tertiary care hospital, Hassan, Karnataka

Compliance to post-exposure prophylaxis among patients attending anti-rabies vaccination clinic in a tertiary health care centre in central India: a cross sectional study

“…In this study, cases of animal bites were more in males than females, similar to findings of Sharma et al 7 We also found that the majority of patients that is 89% were exposed to dog bites, similar to the findings of Karmakar et al and Nishant et al but more than findings by Gadapani et al [8][9][10] In our study, lower limb was the most commonly injured site in 59.3% patients and similar findings were observed in a study conducted by Domple et al 11 In the present study, 45 (15.7%) patients did not wash wound after bite as compared to study by Kawale et al where 3206 (53%) did not manage their wound. 12 In our study, it was seen that 78% of patients completed all doses of ARV which was similar to findings of Lilare et al and Jena et al 6,13 The compliance to ARV in our study was more than findings by Nishant et al , Titoria et al and Praveen et al 9,14,15 Compliance to RIG in our study was 63.3% which is in accordance with findings by Kawale et al and Datta et al 12,16 There was significant association between compliance to ARV last dose with the type of animal. Similar results were found in a study conducted by Shivasakthimani et al and Wadde et al 17,18 There was significant association found between compliance to RIG with gender, socioeconomic status, type of animal and type of wound.…”