Assessment of disease reporting among health care workers in a South Eastern State, Nigeria

Iwu, Anthony C.; Diwe, Kevin C.; Merenu, Irene A.; Duru, Chukwuma B.; Uwakwe, Kenechi A.

doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20163359

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“…Studies had revealed the knowledge and attitude of infectious diseases reporting with respects to sociodemographic characteristics such as gender,[ 8 ] races,[ 8 ] specialties,[ 10 15 ] years of experiences,[ 23 ] and geographical regions. [ 7 ] Our study revealed that knowledge and attitude of infectious disease reporting were not significantly different between genders, races, nationalities, and scholarship status among final year medical students which were similar to the findings of study done among physicians. [ 8 ]…”

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“…Similar to our finding, previous studies done among health professionals in Nigeria, Germany, and England showed that the percentage of awareness of the physician's duty for disease notification was as high as 87%–97%. [ 7 15 18 ] Regards to the overall knowledge of infectious disease reporting, even among general practitioners and physicians, the good level of knowledge was ranged from 14.3% to 37%. [ 8 9 ] Among the final year students in this study, 47.5% had moderate knowledge, but only 4.2% of them had good level of knowledge which was lower than previous studies.…”

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“…Even though notification and reporting of infectious diseases are vital in prevention and control of the spread of infection,[ 4 ] underreporting, and incompleteness of notifiable infectious disease were documented in many countries. [ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ] Many studies have shown that major barriers to reporting include the health professional's knowledge of notifiable diseases[ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ] and attitude toward infectious diseases reporting. [ 5 6 11 ] Learning on disease surveillance at undergraduate level provides the knowledge and attitude which is essential to fulfil the future role in country's disease surveillance system.…”

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Knowledge and attitude of mandatory infectious disease notification among final year medical students

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Than

Lwin

et al. 2018

J Family Med Prim Care

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Background:Disease surveillance is one of the major components to combat against infectious diseases. As health-care professionals are indispensable to mandatory notifiable disease surveillance, their knowledge and attitudes toward infectious disease notification played an important role for timely and effective reporting to the surveillance system. Therefore, we aimed to determine the knowledge of mandatory notifiable infectious diseases in Malaysia and attitude towards infectious disease reporting among final year medical students.Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted from May to June 2017 in the private medical college in Malaysia.Materials and Methods:We purposively selected the final year (semester 10) medical students and a total of 124 students participated in this study. We collected data using a self-administered, structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, and one-way analysis of variance.Results:Among the final year medical students, 47.5% had moderate knowledge but 4.2% had good knowledge of mandatory infectious disease notification. Only 3.2% of the students correctly answered all the notifiable diseases listed in the questionnaire. Most of the students had positive attitude toward communicable diseases reporting, rewards, and penalty for notification. There was no significant relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and knowledge and attitude of infectious disease notification.Conclusions:The majority of the final year medical students had moderate level of knowledge and positive attitude of infectious disease notification; however, there were some deficiencies. Better instruction and training on infectious disease notification procedures of Malaysia should be provided to the final year medical students which could not only reduce underreporting but also improve timely and effective reporting in future.

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“…However, though a previous report for Adis Ababa County in Ethiopia by the Ministry of Health about IDSR implementation revealed that training effectively closes the knowledge gap and therefore improves attitude and practice of health care workers in disease reporting (Ministry of Health Ethiopia, 2016) and further showed that training improved disease reporting either by improving knowledge, improving health workers appreciation of the value of reliable data, improving awareness and use of IDSR indicators or the completeness and timeliness of reporting [15]. Therefore, in the case of Rufunsa District, training and retraining of health workers in IDSR, and disease reporting were the factors that needed to be prioritised at all management levels unlike leaving it to the Provincial Health Office that mostly provided training to about 21.2% of the respondents in the present study.…”

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Assessment of Factors Affecting the Implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Public Health Care Facilities - The Case of Rufunsa District, Zambia

Haakonde¹,

Munsanje²,

Chishimba³

2018

Divers Equal Health Care

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Late reporting of disease outbreaks and other health related events of public health significance have been linked to poor implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR). As such strengthening the capacity of health workers involved in IDSR implementation is required. The main objective of this study was to assess the factors affecting the implementation of the IDSR in public health care facilities in Rufunsa District, Zambia.A cross-sectional facility based descriptive study design as well as observation was done in which 34 study subjects were conveniently sampled from the 9 health facilities in the district. Data collection was done using a pretested semi structured questionnaire and an institutional-tailored observational checklist. Analyses were done using SPSS version18.The study revealed that factors that affected the implementation of the IDSR were low knowledge levels among Health Workers about IDSR as only 36.3% of them received training in IDSR in the last 12 months at the time of this study. Other factors that created gaps in the implementation of IDSR were negative attitudes of the health workers as 9.0% of them were of the opinion that the IDSR system wasted much of their time, as its implementation interfered with their clinical work and about 51.5% were demoralised as they felt that support from the managers at the District, Province and Ministry of Health Headquarters was inadequate. Poor practices of health workers towards IDSR was also identified as a factor affecting IDSR Implementation. For instance, it was revealed that about 27.3% of the health workers either infrequently or never reported a disease which required mandatory reporting in the last 12 months as they stated that the process of reporting was cumbersome as the forms were too many and complicated. They further echoed that IDSR implementation lacked prompt feedback from the Managers at the District. Resource-wise, all facilities in the district lacked adequate resources for IDSR implementation. For example between 11.1 to 44.4% of the health facilities lacked one or more types of reporting forms. Other resources lacking were electricity, and good network connectivity since about 51.5% relied on mobile phones for sending reports which required prompt feedback. Therefore, to ensure effective IDSR implementation, adequate funding directed to the strengthening of IDSR activities should be deliberately put in the budget's yellow book. Regular IDSR trainings are to be offered to health workers which should be followed by mentorship and supervision by the District and Provincial Health Offices as well as the Ministry of Health. Keywords: Integrated disease surveillance and response; Implementation; Disease reportingKey points of what the paper will add to the topic:1. Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response(IDSR) as a strategy by the World Health African Regional Office (WHO-ARO), helps in keeping the countries alert about notifiable diseases occurences.2. It promotes generation of quality data abo...

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“…The included assessment studies were based on the revised African IDSR technical guideline disease categories, with twenty studies focused on notifiable diseases requiring immediate reporting while three [19][20][21] out of the twenty studies mentioned diseases targeted for elimination and eradication including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as guinea worm disease, trachoma and schistosomiasis. However, seven studies did not specify any particular disease in the assessment [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. The reviewed studies covered a combination of surveillance functions with 24 focusing on core functions, 22 on support functions and 18 on surveillance attribute functions.…”

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A systematic review on improving implementation of the revitalised integrated disease surveillance and response system in the African region: a health workers’ perspective

Ng'etich

Voyi

Kirinyet

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Background: The revised integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR) guidelines adopted by African member states in 2010 aimed at strengthening surveillance systems critical capacities. Milestones achieved through IDSR strategy implementation prior to adopting the revised guidelines are well documented, however, there is a dearth of knowledge on the progress made post-adoption. This study aimed to review key recommendations resulting from surveillance assessment studies to improve implementation of the revitalised IDSR system in the African region based on health workers perspectives. The review focused on literature published between 2010 and 2019 post-adopting the revised IDSR guidelines in the African region. Methods: A systematic literature search in PubMed, Web of Science and Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature was conducted. In addition, manual reference searches and grey literature searches using World Health Organization Library and Information Networks for Knowledge databases were undertaken. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement checklist for systematic reviews was utilised for the review process. Results: Thirty assessment studies met the inclusion criteria. IDSR implementation under the revised guidelines could be improved considerably bearing in mind critical findings and recommendations emanating from the reviewed surveillance assessment studies. Key recommendations alluded to provision of laboratory facilities and improved specimen handling, provision of reporting forms and improved reporting quality, surveillance data accuracy and quality, improved knowledge and surveillance system performance, utilisation of up-to-date information and surveillance system strengthening, provision of resources, enhanced reporting timeliness and completeness, adopting alternative surveillance strategies and conducting further research. Conclusion: Recommendations on strengthening IDSR implementation in the African region post-adopting the revised guidelines mainly identify surveillance functions focused on reporting, feedback, training, supervision, timeliness and completeness of the surveillance system as aspects requiring policy refinement. Systematic Review Registration: PROSPERO registration number CRD42019124108.

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Assessment of disease reporting among health care workers in a South Eastern State, Nigeria

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Knowledge and attitude of mandatory infectious disease notification among final year medical students

Knowledge and attitude of mandatory infectious disease notification among final year medical students

Assessment of Factors Affecting the Implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Public Health Care Facilities - The Case of Rufunsa District, Zambia

A systematic review on improving implementation of the revitalised integrated disease surveillance and response system in the African region: a health workers’ perspective

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