Valuation of knowledge, attitude, practices of tuberculosis among the health care workers from Islamabad Pakistan

•Inappropriate health care management system and poor implementation on standard in relevance to TB, remain some reasons causative to TB prevalence in high burden countries.•KAP study is important in order to optimize difficulties, limitations and capacities for enhancement of certain scenarios incl...

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Published in:Acta tropica 2024-09, Vol.257, p.107317, Article 107317
Main Authors: Ahmed, Niaz, Jabeen, Sadia, Rashid, Faiqa, Lal, Nand, Ali, Maqsood, Sattar, Abdul, Ali, Ansar, Ali, Abid, Arshad, Muhammad, Fu, Yingmei, Zhang, Fengmin, Malik, Shaukat Iqbal
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Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude
Healthcare practitioner
Islamabad capital territory
Knowledge
Practice
Tuberculosis
Valuation
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Summary:•Inappropriate health care management system and poor implementation on standard in relevance to TB, remain some reasons causative to TB prevalence in high burden countries.•KAP study is important in order to optimize difficulties, limitations and capacities for enhancement of certain scenarios including health care.•We valuated a TB KAP study among Health Care Workers in ICT, Pakistan to highlight the KAP impact on TB prevalence in community.•For a better management system of infectious diseases like TB, a well-trained and professionally competent staff of Health Care Workers is far crucial. Tuberculosis (TB) as a foremost infectious disease adds massive burden to morbidity and mortality rate, despite of well-structured TB control programs around the globe. Inappropriate health care management system and poor implementation on standard in relevance to TB, remain some reasons causative to TB prevalence and its rising antimicrobial resistance. Health Care Workers (HCWs) laboring as a part of TB control system, are the vital warriors in achieving the goals of TB End Strategy by 2035. Their performance is influenced by their knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) toward this infectious disease. This study aimed to signify the role of KAP score of health care Workers in the better control and prevention of TB in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Pakistan. A cross-sectional study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice study of Tuberculosis (TB) among health care Workers, was done in ICT, which is the capital of Pakistan. The KAP of TB was collected for the 306 Health Care Workers from all the Islamabad TB referring health facilities which refer the TB patients for testing to the National Reference Laboratory, Islamabad Pakistan. Eligible health care workers were requested to respond on KAP questionnaire after informed consent. KAP questionnaire comprised of knowledge, attitude, and practices section including demographic information. All the data was analyzed using IBM SPSS statistics 21. One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to calculate KAP mean score against different variables. On the significant data sets of ANOVA output, Tukey's Multiple Comparison Test was applied for pairwise comparison. Pearson correlation coefficient was utilized to explore the association between two qualitative variables. The non-parametric tests were applied to evaluate difference of KAP score in relation to demographic covariates individually. From June to July 2023
ISSN:0001-706X
1873-6254
1873-6254
DOI:10.1016/j.actatropica.2024.107317