Abbasi Atif, Rafique Muhammad, Saghir Amir, Abbas Kamran, Shaheen Shabnum, Abdullah Farooq
Department of Statistics, The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Chehla Campus, Muzaffarbad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
Department of Physics, The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Chehla Campus, Muzaffarbad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
Pak J Pharm Sci. 2016 Nov;29(6):1959-1968.
To assess the awareness about the spread and control of tuberculosis as well as to investigate the gender and occupation wise differences among people regarding knowledge and attitude towards tuberculosis in the State of AJ & K. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in district Muzaffarabad and a sample of 4000 respondents was selected by using stratified random sampling technique. The stratification was done with respect to gender and occupation. The occupation wise classification includes households, labors, and shop keepers, government employers, under graduate students of social and natural sciences, medical students and doctors. A close ended structured questionnaire was developed to collect the data and data were analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). Chi-Square test was used for association and Logistic Regression model was used to find out the most significant risk factors with gender. Majority of the males were more aware of tuberculosis than females regarding different aspects related to tuberculosis. The respondents from household, labors and shopkeepers have less awareness and knowledge than those who belong to other professions. The doctors and medical students have almost 100% awareness and knowledge of tuberculosis. It was examined that all the variables were associated with gender except threat, curable and transmissible. Only three variables mentioned above showed non- significant result, while all other variables were strongly associated with gender. Males were found more aware about TB than females. Moreover, the literate people were more conscious concerning the prevalence and threats of the disease.
为评估对结核病传播与控制的知晓情况，并调查查谟和克什米尔邦民众在结核病知识与态度方面的性别及职业差异。在穆扎法拉巴德地区开展了一项横断面描述性研究，采用分层随机抽样技术选取了4000名受访者作为样本。分层依据性别和职业进行。职业分类包括家庭户、劳工、店主、政府雇员、社会科学与自然科学专业本科生、医学生和医生。设计了一份封闭式结构化问卷来收集数据，并使用SPSS（社会科学统计软件包）对数据进行分析。卡方检验用于关联性分析，逻辑回归模型用于找出与性别相关的最显著风险因素。在结核病的不同相关方面，大多数男性比女性对结核病的知晓程度更高。家庭户、劳工和店主群体的受访者比其他职业群体的受访者知晓度和知识水平更低。医生和医学生对结核病的知晓度和知识水平几乎达到100%。经检验，除了结核病具有威胁性、可治愈和可传播这几点外，所有变量均与性别相关。上述仅三个变量显示无显著结果，而所有其他变量均与性别密切相关。发现男性比女性对结核病的知晓度更高。此外，识字的人对该疾病的患病率和威胁更为关注。
