Kpanake Lonzozou, Gossou Komlantsè, Sorum Paul Clay, Mullet Etienne
University of Québec - TELUQ, Montréal, Canada.
University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea.
J Public Health Policy. 2016 May;37(2):160-72. doi: 10.1057/jphp.2016.1. Epub 2016 Feb 11.
To characterize the perception of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea, we administered, from November 2014 to February 2015, a questionnaire to a convenience sample of 200 lay people in Conakry and a group of 8 physicians. We found widespread misconceptions among lay people, including that praying to God can protect against EVD, that traditional healers are more competent than physicians in treating EVD, that people get infected through physical proximity without contact, that the Ebola epidemic is the result of Western bioterrorism experiments, that Western medical staff disseminated the virus, and that the purpose of quarantine measures is to hasten the death of Ebola patients. Major educational interventions, sensitive to local cultural beliefs, are needed to overcome the misconceptions about Ebola in Guinea.
为了了解几内亚民众对埃博拉病毒病（EVD）的认知情况，我们于2014年11月至2015年2月，对科纳克里的200名普通民众和8名医生组成的便利样本进行了问卷调查。我们发现普通民众中存在广泛的误解，包括向上帝祈祷可以预防埃博拉病毒病、传统治疗师在治疗埃博拉病毒病方面比医生更有能力、人们在没有接触的情况下通过身体靠近就会被感染、埃博拉疫情是西方生物恐怖主义实验的结果、西方医务人员传播了病毒以及隔离措施的目的是加速埃博拉患者的死亡。需要开展对当地文化信仰敏感的重大教育干预措施，以消除几内亚民众对埃博拉的误解。
