Harapan Harapan, Yogambigai Rajamoorthy, Prattama Santoso Utomo, Samsul Anwar, Abdul Malik Setiawan, Alma Alleta, Alfredo Bambang, Muhammad R. Ramadana, Ikram Ikram, Nur Wahyuniati, Reza Maulana, Ichsan Ichsan, Rosaria Indah, Abram Luther Wagner, Ulrich Kuch, Jan David Alexander Groneberg, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Mohd Andalas, Ruth Müller, Mudatsir Mudatsir, Allison Imrie
- 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.
MetadatenAuthor: | Harapan HarapanORCiD, Yogambigai RajamoorthyORCiD, Prattama Santoso UtomoORCiD, Samsul AnwarORCiD, Abdul Malik SetiawanORCiD, Alma Alleta, Alfredo Bambang, Muhammad R. Ramadana, Ikram Ikram, Nur Wahyuniati, Reza Maulana, Ichsan IchsanORCiD, Rosaria Indah, Abram Luther WagnerORCiD, Ulrich KuchORCiDGND, Jan David Alexander GronebergORCiDGND, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Mohd Andalas, Ruth MüllerORCiD, Mudatsir MudatsirORCiD, Allison ImrieORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-508639 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4297-4 |
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ISSN: | 1471-2334 |
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Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31387537 |
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Parent Title (English): | BMC infectious diseases |
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Publisher: | BioMed Central ; Springer |
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Place of publication: | London ; Berlin ; Heidelberg |
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Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Year of Completion: | 2019 |
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Date of first Publication: | 2019/08/06 |
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Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
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Release Date: | 2019/09/02 |
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Tag: | Attitude; General practitioner; Healthcare worker; Knowledge; Zika virus |
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Volume: | 19 |
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Issue: | 1, Art. 693 |
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Page Number: | 12 |
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First Page: | 1 |
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Last Page: | 12 |
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Note: | 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. |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 45397497X |
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Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
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Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
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Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
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