Awareness towards urinary schistosomiasis and its relation with active infection among primary school pupils and students in North Kordofan state, Sudan 2022

IF 2 Q3 INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Parasite Epidemiology and Control Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI:10.1016/j.parepi.2024.e00346

Ghassan E. Mustafa Ahmed , Exeer Yahia M. Ahmed , Ayat Eltahir Ahmed , Lina Hemmeda , Anmar B. Birier , Tibyan Abdelgadir , Hadiea Mosaab Ahmed Elbashir Hassan , Esraa S.A. Alfadul , Musab Bakr , Ethar Awadelkareem Jaafer Sadig , Khotwa Charity Foundation

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Abstract

Objectives

This study intends to evaluate the prevalence of active Schistosomiasis in school children, as well as their awareness, attitude, and behavior towards the illness in El-Rahad province.

Methods

This facility-based analytical cross-sectional study among 495 primary school children aged seven to 13 in five villages; Structured and pre-tested questionnaires were used to collect the data in face-to-face interviews, in addition, urine samples were collected from each pupil and then assessed microscopically for S. Haematobium eggs Presence. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 25.0.

Results

A total of 424 primary school students participated in the study. Almost all the students (96%) had poor knowledge about urinary schistosomiasis. In general, 100% of the students had poor practices. Attitude revealed that females have lower chance of having the infection than their male counterparts. About 27% (n = 115) of them had active urinary schistosomiasis infection at the time of the study.

Conclusion

The study revealed poor level of awareness and knowledge, positive attitude, and poor practices among primary school students. There was also high level of active infection among participants.

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苏丹北科尔多凡州小学生对尿路血吸虫病的认识及其与活动性感染的关系 2022 年

本研究旨在评估拉哈德省活动性血吸虫病在学龄儿童中的流行情况，以及他们对该疾病的认识、态度和行为。方法本研究以设施为基础，对 5 个村庄 495 名 7 至 13 岁的小学生进行横断面分析研究；采用结构化的预试问卷，通过面对面访谈收集数据，此外还收集了每个学生的尿液样本，然后用显微镜评估是否存在血吸虫卵。数据使用 SPSS 25.0 版进行分析。几乎所有学生（96%）都对尿路血吸虫病知之甚少。总体而言，100%的学生实践能力较差。从态度上看，女性感染血吸虫病的几率低于男性。研究结果表明，小学生对尿路血吸虫病的认识和知识水平较低，态度积极，行为不良。参与者的活动性感染率也很高。

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Parasite Epidemiology and Control Medicine-Infectious Diseases

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5.70

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3.10%

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17 weeks

期刊介绍： Parasite Epidemiology and Control is an Open Access journal. There is an increasing amount of research in the parasitology area that analyses the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. This epidemiology of parasite infectious diseases is predominantly studied in human populations but also spans other major hosts of parasitic infections and as such this journal will have a broad remit. We will focus on the major areas of epidemiological study including disease etiology, disease surveillance, drug resistance and geographical spread and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects in clinical trials for both human and other animals. We will also look at the epidemiology and control of vector insects. The journal will also cover the use of geographic information systems (Epi-GIS) for epidemiological surveillance which is a rapidly growing area of research in infectious diseases. Molecular epidemiological approaches are also particularly encouraged.