Holla Nikhil, Mathur Anmol, Mathur Aditi, Bahta Habtom, Abrar Nada, Aggarwal Vikram Pal
Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Orotta School of Medicine and Dental Science, Asmara, Eritrea.
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Dr. D.Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Jan 28;9(1):271-275. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_741_19. eCollection 2020 Jan.
Hepatitis B (HB) is one of the highly infectious and the most common cause of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. It is transmitted through blood and body fluids. Most healthcare related personnel are at very high susceptibility towards this infection from the infected patients.
To evaluate the knowledge and practice towards the hepatitis disease and its cross-infection among dental and medical undergraduate students for the first time ever from Eritrea.
It is a cross-sectional survey conducted in the only institute offering undergraduate courses in the field of health sciences.
A total of 115 medical and 50 dental undergraduate students from a health science institute situated in Asmara Eritrea filled the form and submitted for evaluation. The questionnaire consisted of the demographic variables such as college of study, year of course, age, gender, apart from questions regarding the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards hepatitis and its transfusion. All the data was transferred to excel and applied statistical test using SPSS software.
Chi-square test was to test the association between the knowledge and practice variable within the stream of study.
The overall knowledge of the undergraduate students was found to be very high when assessed through this survey although practice scores were not satisfactory. When asked, "Do you think you can be affected by Hepatitis?", in regular practice 33 individual gave incorrect answers.
There is no doubt that the overall knowledge of the undergraduate students is found to be very high but practice scores and awareness towards chances of cross-infection is poor which requires further sessions of education and practice-based courses to be planned for the students.
乙型肝炎（HB）是传染性很强且是慢性肝炎、肝硬化和肝细胞癌最常见的病因之一。它通过血液和体液传播。大多数医护人员极易受到感染患者的这种感染。
有史以来首次评估厄立特里亚牙科和医学本科学生对肝炎疾病及其交叉感染的知识和实践情况。
这是一项在唯一提供健康科学领域本科课程的机构进行的横断面调查。
来自厄立特里亚阿斯马拉一所健康科学机构的115名医学本科学生和50名牙科本科学生填写了表格并提交进行评估。问卷除了包含关于肝炎及其输血方面的知识、态度和实践的问题外，还包括人口统计学变量，如学习学院、课程年份、年龄、性别。所有数据都被转移到Excel中，并使用SPSS软件进行统计测试。
卡方检验用于检验学习领域内知识与实践变量之间的关联。
通过本次调查评估发现，本科学生的总体知识水平很高，尽管实践得分不尽人意。当被问及“你认为你会感染肝炎吗？”时，在日常实践中有33人给出了错误答案。
毫无疑问，本科学生的总体知识水平很高，但实践得分以及对交叉感染可能性的认识较差，这需要为学生安排更多的教育课程和基于实践的课程。
