Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices on Cholera Transmission and Prevention Measures Among Heads of Household Members in Kigamboni Municipality, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Abstract

Background: The Kigamboni Municipality has been experiencing recurrences of Cholera outbreaks. Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practices associated with Cholera transmission and prevention measures.
 Method: A cross section descriptive study was adopted. A multistage sampling was used to select 410 respondents. An Interview schedule was used to obtain respondents opinions. Statistical Package for Social Sciences software version 20.0 was used to generate descriptive statistics which were further summarized into contingency tables.
 Results: Results indicate that the most study population (70.2%) had knowledge on causes, symptoms and the modes of transmission of Cholera. It was also found out that communities treat drinking water to make it safe (76.8%) and are regular in hand washing with soap (80.9%). The result also indicates that the community is willing to vaccination (90%) and to adopting the Cholera prevention measures (92.7%). 
 Conclusions and recommendations: The supply of pure water and adequate sanitation may serve as the prevention measures against the Cholera outbreak recurrences at Kigamboni Municipality.

Knowledge, attitudes and preventative practices (KAPs) towards COVID-19 among international students in China

“…Furthermore, on knowledge gaps the study is in conformity with results in other areas where pandemics like Cholera, Ebola, Avian In uenza (H5N1), N1H1 [8] Flu Virus and COVID-19 knowledge were researched like Thailand and Nigeria where they also found that they were knowledge gaps among people depending on social demographic factors like academic background, sex, age (1,35). This good Knowledge among international students could be attributed to the fact of ICT [9] development and the nature of COVID-19 because it had been the news that anyone talked about day in day out because of the utterly devastating of its impact that the pandemic had on every aspect of human life.…”

“…However, it was found in this study that there were signi cant variations between major of study and experience having lower mean scores towards preventative practices of COVID-19 the reasons could be those in lower age group (<20) not being in a good number in China and that those that had more than 2 years stay feeling not scared because of their experience of staying in China. It was clear then that many people practised good practises of pandemics in many countries due to the negative consequences that they saw when they failed to conform to good practises as a results many studies too are in agreement with this research that a lot of people practise the preventive and control practices given by their authorities (8,28,36).…”

“…These range from such pandemics and epidemics as HIV/AIDS [1] (1,2), Ebola in the western African countries i.e. Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Liberia and Sera Leone (3), SARSs [2] in Asian countries including China speci cally (4,5), Cholera in most of the African Countries (6)(7)(8)(9), and Avian In uenza (Bird u) (10). Despite the fact that some of the aforementioned epidemics and pandemics have had a trace of origin in speci c countries, like that of Ebola in Sub-Saharan Africa, and SARS in Asia, the world has always demonstrated incredible solidarity and sought to ght these epidemics and pandemics together collectively.…”

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Preventative Practices (KAPs) Towards COVID-19 Among International Students in China

“…As a results this research is in agreement with other studies that found that a lot of people practice good preventive and control practices given by their authorities. 22,31,41 Furthermore, this study found that there was a positive correlation between attitude and adherence to preventative practices against COVID-19, which indicated that if people possessed good attitudes towards pandemics like COVID-19 they were more likely to conform to all the preventive measures against COVID-19. However, there was no significant relationship between knowledge and attitude and practices, which differs with other studies which were conducted on the same topic and other topics.…”

“…As a results this research is in agreement with other studies that found that a lot of people practice good preventive and control practices given by their authorities. 22 , 31 , 41 …”