Ferrari Carlos K B, Savazzi Kamirri, Honorio-França Adenilda C, Ferrari Graziele S L, França Eduardo L
Campus II Av Govjaime Campos, 6390, Distrito Industrial, 78.600-000, Barra do Garras, MT. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), Campus Universitário do Araguaia, Brazil.
Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam. 2012 Jun;42(2):120-6.
Viral and non-viral hepatitis are of great concern among developing nations because of their pathogenicity and virulence, and also their wide spreading by contaminated blood, food or water. The objective of this work was to evaluate the knowledge about hepatitis of academic students from three life/health sciences courses and also students from the last year of high school To measure the students' knowledge on hepatitis an instrument containing 22 questions was applied. Surprinsingly, it was verified that 41.9% of students had poor knowledge of viral hepatitis. Among the high school students, 31.8% ignored that viral hepatitis are infectious and transmissible diseases. Considering hepatitis symptomatology, just 18% of high school students declared knowledge of the symptons, but none of those cited the ictericia. Among the academic students, 75.9% of nursing students had adequate knowledge of hepatitis, followed by pharmacy (51.3%), and biology students (18.2%). Nursing students had also higher scores of right answers regarding viral hepatitis and chronic disease. On contrary, biology and high school students had poor knowledge of that matter (37% and 44.5%, respectively). Less than 15% of nursing and pharmacy students did not know that viral hepatitis are sexually transmissible, whereas 78.6% of the 3rd year and 52.4% of the 4th year biology course ignored the sexual transmission of viral hepatitis. Still considering the same question, 54.5% of the high school students also ignored that viral hepatitis are sexually transmitted diseases. Important conclusions can be drawn from this study, since the higher hepatitis knowledge scores were found among nursing students, followed by pharmacy academics. However, biology students, which will serve as high school teachers, had poor and insufficient knowledge on hepatitis. This finding could explain the same poor disease knowledge among high school pupils.
病毒性肝炎和非病毒性肝炎因其致病性和毒力，以及通过受污染血液、食物或水的广泛传播，在发展中国家备受关注。这项工作的目的是评估来自三门生命/健康科学课程的大学生以及高三学生对肝炎的了解情况。为了衡量学生对肝炎的了解，应用了一份包含22个问题的问卷。令人惊讶的是，经证实41.9%的学生对病毒性肝炎了解甚少。在高中生中，31.8%的学生不知道病毒性肝炎是传染病且具有传染性。考虑到肝炎症状，只有18%的高中生表示了解这些症状，但没有人提到黄疸。在大学生中，75.9%的护理专业学生对肝炎有足够的了解，其次是药学专业学生（51.3%），生物学专业学生（18.2%）。护理专业学生在病毒性肝炎和慢性病方面的正确答案得分也更高。相反，生物学专业学生和高中生对这方面了解甚少（分别为37%和44.5%）。不到15%的护理和药学专业学生不知道病毒性肝炎可通过性传播，而生物专业三年级学生中有78.6%、四年级学生中有52.4%忽视了病毒性肝炎的性传播。仍考虑同一个问题，54.5%的高中生也不知道病毒性肝炎是性传播疾病。从这项研究中可以得出重要结论，因为护理专业学生的肝炎知识得分最高，其次是药学专业学生。然而，将成为高中教师的生物学专业学生对肝炎的了解匮乏且不足。这一发现可以解释高中生对该疾病同样匮乏的了解情况。
