2016
DOI: 10.1111/eje.12224
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Knowledge, attitude and behaviour regarding hepatitis C virus infection amongst Brazilian dental students

Abstract: These results demonstrated a satisfactory knowledge about HCV infection amongst dental students, but some gaps were observed, suggesting the importance of continuous education about HCV in this population to prevent HCV infection as well as discrimination and prejudice towards patients with hepatitis C.

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“…The range of the knowledge score was from 0 to 1 for individual respondents. Where zero represented completely ignorant about this disease and one as d perfect basic knowledge of respondent about hepatitis like other studies (Shah et al, 2015;Souza et al, 2016). Cross sectional data was collected from patients and non-patients on knowledge about hepatitis, socioeconomic variables like age, gender, locality, education level, household income, household size, information on diagnostic tests or not, lived with any known patient of such disease etc.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The range of the knowledge score was from 0 to 1 for individual respondents. Where zero represented completely ignorant about this disease and one as d perfect basic knowledge of respondent about hepatitis like other studies (Shah et al, 2015;Souza et al, 2016). Cross sectional data was collected from patients and non-patients on knowledge about hepatitis, socioeconomic variables like age, gender, locality, education level, household income, household size, information on diagnostic tests or not, lived with any known patient of such disease etc.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Não obstante, se faz necessário, principalmente aos profissionais da área da saúde, o cuidado de maneira integral com a adoção de protocolos e de condutas de biossegurança que devem ser rigorosamente seguidos 2,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21 .…”
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“…A maioria dos analisados afirmou que a principal fonte de informação para hepatite B fora por meio da graduação, corroborando com os achados de Freitas et al 23 e Souza et al 10 Porém, apesar de alegarem que receberam informações na graduação, percebeu-se que os conhecimentos passados ainda não foram suficientemente assimilados, pois grande parte desconheceu aspectos relacionados à hepatite B, o que vem ao encontro de Abdela et al 8 , Ahmad et al 22 , Souza et al 10 e Karimiankakolaki et al 26. Todavia, sabe-se que as instituições de ensino superior tem papel fundamental em se tratando de prevenção e controle das doenças imunopreveníveis, como a hepatite B, pois é na graduação que se fundamentam os conceitos e se constroem saberes, estes, que devem ser levados para toda vida profissional.…”
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