Abebe Tamrat Befekadu, Bhagavathula Akshaya Srikanth, Tefera Yonas Getaye, Ahmad Akram, Khan Muhammad Umair, Belachew Sewunet Admasu, Brown Brandon, Abegaz Tadesse Melaku
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Gondar-College of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Pharmacy , Gondar, Ethiopia.
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, UCSI University , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
J Public Health Afr. 2016 Dec 31;7(2):570. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2016.570.
A poor understanding of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) among Health Care Professionals (HCPs) may put our lives at risk. We aimed to assess the awareness, knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, beliefs of HCPs towards Ebola at Gondar University Hospital (GUH) in Northwest Ethiopia. We conducted a hospital based, cross-sectional survey among 245 randomly selected HCPs working at GUH from August-October, 2015. A validated, self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. We calculated descriptive statistics with P<0.05 being statistically significant. Of the 245 participants, 211 (86.1%) completed the study. The majority had heard about EVD and used news media (62%) as a source of information. Still, many were afraid of getting EVD (56.4%; P=0.001). A significant number of HCPs thought EVD can cause paralysis like polio (45%) and can be treated with antibiotics (28.4%). In addition, 46.4% of the HCPs felt anger or fear towards Ebola infected patients (P=0.006). We identified poor knowledge and negative incorrect beliefs among doctors and allied health professionals. There is a need for intensive training for all HCPs reduce EVD risk.
医护人员对埃博拉病毒病（EVD）了解不足可能会危及我们的生命。我们旨在评估埃塞俄比亚西北部贡德尔大学医院（GUH）的医护人员对埃博拉的认识、知识、态度、看法和信念。2015年8月至10月，我们在GUH对245名随机挑选的医护人员进行了一项基于医院的横断面调查。使用经过验证的自填式问卷收集数据。我们计算了描述性统计数据，P<0.05具有统计学意义。在245名参与者中，211名（86.1%）完成了研究。大多数人听说过EVD，并将新闻媒体（62%）作为信息来源。然而，许多人害怕感染EVD（56.4%；P=0.001）。相当多的医护人员认为EVD会像小儿麻痹症一样导致瘫痪（45%），并且可以用抗生素治疗（28.4%）。此外，46.4%的医护人员对埃博拉感染患者感到愤怒或恐惧（P=0.006）。我们发现医生和专职医疗人员存在知识匮乏和负面错误信念的情况。需要对所有医护人员进行强化培训以降低EVD风险。
