A cross sectional assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards Hepatitis B among healthy population of Quetta, Pakistan

BMC Public Health

Hisham Aljadhey¹  Maryam Farooqui²  Fahad Saleem³  Asrul A Shafie³  Mohamed Azmi Hassali³  Noman ul Haq³ 

[1] College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Bertam, Penang, 13200, Malaysia;Discipline of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

关键词: Pakistan;    Healthy population;    Hepatitis B;    Practice;    Attitude;    Knowledge;   

Others  :  1163219
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-12-692

 received in 2012-05-26, accepted in 2012-08-13,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Hepatitis B (HB) is a serious global public health problem. This study aims to evaluate Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) towards Hepatitis B (HB) among healthy population of Quetta city, Pakistan.

Methods

A cross sectional, descriptive study was undertaken. One thousand healthy individuals (aged 18 years and above) were approached for the study. KAP towards HB was assessed by using a pre validated questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used for elaborating patients’ demographic characteristics. Inferential statistics (Mann–Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test) were used for comparison while Spearman’s rho correlation was used to identify association between the study variables. All analyses were performed using SPSS 16.0.

Results

Out of 1000 distributed questionnaires, 780 were returned with a response rate of 78.0%. Four hundred and twenty (53.8%) respondents were male with mean age of 32.76 ± 9.40 year. Two hundred and eight (26.7%) had intermediate level of education and 354 (45.4%) were unemployed. Mean scores for knowledge, attitude and practice were 8.74 ± 2.7, 3.72 ± 1.2 and 2.76 ± 1.1 respectively. Significant and positive linear correlations between knowledge-attitude (r = 0.296, p < 0.01) knowledge-practice (r = 0.324, p < 0.01) and attitude-practice (r = 0.331, p < 0.01) were observed. Area of residence (locality) was the only variables significantly associated with mean KAP of the study respondents.

Conclusion

Results from the current study heighted poor KAP of healthy population towards HB. The positive linear correlations reaffirms that better knowledge can lead to positive attitude and subsequently in good practices. This will further help in prevention and management of HB. Therefore, extensive health educational campaign should be provided to general population and especially to the residents of rural areas.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 ul Haq et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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