Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Section of Infectious Disease, University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 Jun;98(6):1743-1747. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0495. Epub 2018 Apr 19.
We designed and implemented a survey of physician knowledge, attitudes, and practices with respect to Chagas disease in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. Seventy-eight public sector physicians from across the state responded via Research Electronic Data Capture, an online survey capture tool. Improved performance on knowledge-based questions ( < 0.01) and an increase in decisions to screen ( = 0.04) were associated with previous training specific to this disease. Our results provide important descriptive information regarding knowledge, attitudes, and practices among a group of public sector Mexican doctors and highlight the importance of Chagas disease-specific physician training for identification and, ultimately, treatment of patients affected by this disease.
我们设计并实施了一项针对墨西哥塔巴斯科州医生在恰加斯病方面的知识、态度和实践的调查。全州 78 名公共部门医生通过 Research Electronic Data Capture（在线调查采集工具）进行了在线回答。在知识问题上的表现有所提高（<0.01），并且更多的医生决定进行筛查（=0.04），这与针对这种疾病的特定培训有关。我们的研究结果为一组墨西哥公立部门医生提供了有关知识、态度和实践的重要描述性信息，并强调了针对恰加斯病的医生培训对于识别和最终治疗受这种疾病影响的患者的重要性。
