Assessment of the rabies education among middle secondary school students of southeastern Bhutan
Rabies is one of the most important zoonotic diseases that mostly affect children. We conducted a rabies education among 129 secondary school children (intervention group = 94 students, control group = 35 students) in two schools in southeast Bhutan and evaluated the effectiveness of the lesson by comparing the knowledge, perception and safety behaviour score about rabies before and after education. We also assessed the knowledge retention capacity of the students at three months post intervention. Our findings indicated that short rabies lesson significantly (P<0.001) improved the mean knowledge score from 19.98(±2.72) to 26.96(±2.24) in the intervention group. Similarly, mean scores for perception and safety behaviour improved significantly (P<0.001) from 10.77 (±1.89) to 13.95 (±1.36) and 9.809 (±1.85) to 12.97 (±1.54), respectively. Although the scores have reduced significantly (P<0.001) at three months post intervention, most of the rabies information was largely retained by the students. In control group, significant increase in mean scores were also observed for perception from 10.17 (±2.38) to 11.2 (±2.44) and safety behaviour from 9.14(±1.44) to 10.74 (±1.95) after 3 months of education. The finding demonstrate that a short rabies lesson is effective in improving knowledge, perceptions and understanding of dog bites safety behaviour among the school children. However, there is a need for a frequent awareness program, at least quarterly or half yearly. Rabies education should focus on critical points such as dog bites being the main source of rabies and the importance washing a dog/animal bite wound with soap and water, and visiting the hospital for medical advice following animal bites.
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dig-cirad-fr-6036012024-01-29T19:05:32Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/603601/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/603601/ Assessment of the rabies education among middle secondary school students of southeastern Bhutan. Lungten Lungten, Tenzin Tenzin, Rinchen Sangay, Chedup Kinzang, Wangchuk Sonam, Phimpraphai Waraphon, De Garine-Wichatitsky Michel. 2022. PloS One, 17 (12):e0276862, 18 p.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276862 <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276862> Assessment of the rabies education among middle secondary school students of southeastern Bhutan Lungten, Lungten Tenzin, Tenzin Rinchen, Sangay Chedup, Kinzang Wangchuk, Sonam Phimpraphai, Waraphon De Garine-Wichatitsky, Michel eng 2022 PloS One S50 - Santé humaine rage morsure éducation prévention des maladies enfant en âge scolaire http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6416 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_940 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2488 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10394 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35053 Bhoutan http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_897 Rabies is one of the most important zoonotic diseases that mostly affect children. We conducted a rabies education among 129 secondary school children (intervention group = 94 students, control group = 35 students) in two schools in southeast Bhutan and evaluated the effectiveness of the lesson by comparing the knowledge, perception and safety behaviour score about rabies before and after education. We also assessed the knowledge retention capacity of the students at three months post intervention. Our findings indicated that short rabies lesson significantly (P<0.001) improved the mean knowledge score from 19.98(±2.72) to 26.96(±2.24) in the intervention group. Similarly, mean scores for perception and safety behaviour improved significantly (P<0.001) from 10.77 (±1.89) to 13.95 (±1.36) and 9.809 (±1.85) to 12.97 (±1.54), respectively. Although the scores have reduced significantly (P<0.001) at three months post intervention, most of the rabies information was largely retained by the students. In control group, significant increase in mean scores were also observed for perception from 10.17 (±2.38) to 11.2 (±2.44) and safety behaviour from 9.14(±1.44) to 10.74 (±1.95) after 3 months of education. The finding demonstrate that a short rabies lesson is effective in improving knowledge, perceptions and understanding of dog bites safety behaviour among the school children. However, there is a need for a frequent awareness program, at least quarterly or half yearly. Rabies education should focus on critical points such as dog bites being the main source of rabies and the importance washing a dog/animal bite wound with soap and water, and visiting the hospital for medical advice following animal bites. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/603601/1/Lungten%20et%20al%202022_journal.pone.0276862.pdf text cc_by info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276862 10.1371/journal.pone.0276862 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0276862 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276862 info:eu-repo/semantics/dataset/purl/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5807315 info:eu-repo/semantics/dataset/purl/https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Scoring_system_/21713022 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement///ANR-19-ASIE-0002//(FRA) Socio-Ecological Approach of Dog-borne zoonotic diseases in Southeast Asia/SEA-dog-SEA |
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Rabies is one of the most important zoonotic diseases that mostly affect children. We conducted a rabies education among 129 secondary school children (intervention group = 94 students, control group = 35 students) in two schools in southeast Bhutan and evaluated the effectiveness of the lesson by comparing the knowledge, perception and safety behaviour score about rabies before and after education. We also assessed the knowledge retention capacity of the students at three months post intervention. Our findings indicated that short rabies lesson significantly (P<0.001) improved the mean knowledge score from 19.98(±2.72) to 26.96(±2.24) in the intervention group. Similarly, mean scores for perception and safety behaviour improved significantly (P<0.001) from 10.77 (±1.89) to 13.95 (±1.36) and 9.809 (±1.85) to 12.97 (±1.54), respectively. Although the scores have reduced significantly (P<0.001) at three months post intervention, most of the rabies information was largely retained by the students. In control group, significant increase in mean scores were also observed for perception from 10.17 (±2.38) to 11.2 (±2.44) and safety behaviour from 9.14(±1.44) to 10.74 (±1.95) after 3 months of education. The finding demonstrate that a short rabies lesson is effective in improving knowledge, perceptions and understanding of dog bites safety behaviour among the school children. However, there is a need for a frequent awareness program, at least quarterly or half yearly. Rabies education should focus on critical points such as dog bites being the main source of rabies and the importance washing a dog/animal bite wound with soap and water, and visiting the hospital for medical advice following animal bites. |
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