TY  - JOUR
A1  - Harapan, Harapan
A1  - Rajamoorthy, Yogambigai
A1  - Utomo, Prattama Santoso
A1  - Anwar, Samsul
A1  - Setiawan, Abdul Malik
A1  - Alleta, Alma
A1  - Bambang, Alfredo
A1  - Ramadana, Muhammad R.
A1  - Ikram, Ikram
A1  - Wahyuniati, Nur
A1  - Maulana, Reza
A1  - Ichsan, Ichsan
A1  - Indah, Rosaria
A1  - Wagner, Abram Luther
A1  - Kuch, Ulrich
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
A1  - Andalas, Mohd
A1  - Müller, Ruth
A1  - Mudatsir, Mudatsir
A1  - Imrie, Allison
T1  - Knowledge and attitude towards pregnancy-related issues of Zika virus infection among general practitioners in Indonesia
T2  - BMC infectious diseases
N2  - Background: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes towards pregnancy-related issues of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection among general practitioners (GPs), a frontline healthcare worker group, in Indonesia.
Methods: A cross-sectional, online survey assessing knowledge and attitudes towards ZIKV infection on multiple-item scales was sent to GPs in the Sumatra and Java islands of Indonesia. The associations between independent factors and either knowledge or attitude were assessed with logistic regressions. The correlation and association between knowledge and attitude were estimated.
Results: We included 457 (53.7%) out of 850 responses in the analysis. Among these, 304 (66.5%) and 111 (24.2%) respondents had a good knowledge and attitude, respectively. No demographic, workplace, professional development, or experiential characteristics related to ZIKV infection were associated with knowledge. In the multivariate analysis, only contact experience was associated with attitude. There was a significant, positive correlation between knowledge and attitude scores.
Conclusions: Although knowledge of pregnancy-related complications of ZIKV infection is relatively high among GPs in Indonesia, more than 75% of them had a poor attitude towards pregnancy-related issues of Zika. Strategies for enhancing the capacity of GPs to develop positive attitudes and respond to ZIKV infection are needed.
KW  - Zika virus
KW  - Knowledge
KW  - Attitude
KW  - General practitioner
KW  - Healthcare worker
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50863
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-508639
SN  - 1471-2334
N1  - Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 19
IS  - 1, Art. 693
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - BioMed Central ; Springer
CY  - London ; Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -