Rajoura Om Prakash, Roy Rupali, Agarwal Paras, Kannan Anjur Tupil
Department of Community Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, Delhi, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2011 Jul;36(3):187-90. doi: 10.4103/0970-0218.86518.
Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional pandemics that have claimed the lives of millions. Understanding the role of specific perceptions in motivating people to engage in precautionary behavior may help health communicators to improve their messages about outbreaks of new infectious disease generally and swine flu specifically.
To study the knowledge and practices of health care providers regarding swine flu and to study the attitudes and practices of health care providers toward the prevention of the swine flu epidemic.
The present study was a cross-sectional (descriptive) study and was conducted in the month of September, 2009, among doctors and nurses. A maximum of 40% of the total health care providers of GTB Hospital were covered because of feasibility and logistics, and, therefore, the sample size was 334.
Around 75% of the health care providers were aware about the symptoms of swine flu. Mostly, all study subjects were aware that it is transmitted through droplet infection. Correct knowledge of the incubation period of swine flu was known to 80% of the doctors and 69% of the nurses. Knowledge about high-risk groups (contacts, travelers, health care providers) was observed among 88% of the doctors and 78.8% of the nurses. Practice of wearing mask during duty hours was observed among 82.6% of doctors and 85% of nurses, whereas of the total study population, only 40% were correctly using mask during duty hours.
Significant gaps observed between knowledge and actual practice of the Health Care Provider regarding swine flu need to be filled by appropriate training. Data indicate that the health care providers are very intellectual, but they do not themselves practice what they preach.
流感病毒每年都会引发疫情，偶尔还会导致大流行，已造成数百万人死亡。了解特定认知在促使人们采取预防行为方面所起的作用，可能有助于健康传播者改进他们关于一般新传染病爆发特别是猪流感爆发的信息。
研究医疗保健人员关于猪流感的知识和做法，并研究医疗保健人员对预防猪流感疫情的态度和做法。
本研究为横断面（描述性）研究，于2009年9月在医生和护士中进行。由于可行性和后勤方面的原因，涵盖了GTB医院最多40%的医疗保健人员，因此样本量为334。
约75%的医疗保健人员知晓猪流感症状。大多数情况下，所有研究对象都知道它是通过飞沫感染传播的。80%的医生和69%的护士正确了解猪流感的潜伏期。88%的医生和78.8%的护士了解高风险人群（接触者、旅行者、医疗保健人员）。82.6%的医生和85%的护士在工作时间佩戴口罩，而在整个研究人群中，只有40%的人在工作时间正确使用口罩。
医疗保健人员在猪流感知识与实际做法之间存在的显著差距需要通过适当培训来填补。数据表明，医疗保健人员很有知识，但他们自己却没有践行自己所宣扬的内容。
