Hepatitis B infection and vaccination: knowledge and attitude among medical students

A study on knowledge attitude and practices related to hepatitis B infection among nursing students of government nursing college, Jagdalpur, Bastar, Chhattisgarh

“…The findings revealed that as students progressed towards their successive academic years their vaccination status improved, which is similar to Noubiap et al's findings. 15 Upon further probing on the reasons for not taking vaccination, 51% of the non-vaccinated 1st year students reported that they were "not aware" of vaccine availability (Figure 1), which is similar to the findings of Biradar et als's study on first year medical students 16 . Statistically significant difference (p<0.05) was observed among all academic batches when asked as to when they should be ideally vaccinated.…”

“…Similar results were seen in Biradar et al study. 16 The results are consistent with their current status of vaccination, excluding the 1st year nursing students. Knowledge regarding treatment among all academic batches was low in our study (Table 2).…”

Awareness of Hepatitis B infection among second year medical students and their vaccination status

“…1 Hepatitis B is an acute systemic infection with major pathology in the liver, caused by Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and transmitted by multiple routes with parenteral route being most common in developing countries. 2 It commonly produces an acute self-limiting infection, which may be either subclinical or symptomatic. Persistent HBV infection may cause hepatic complications like chronic hepatitis, fulminant hepatitis, cirrhosis of liver and hepatocellular carcinoma.…”