Volume : 7, Issue : 2, February - 2018

To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of rabies among adults.

Pradnya Waghmare, B. D. Kulkarni

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Rabies is an infectious fatal disease caused by a virus and transmitted to a human being by the bite of an infected, warm-blooded animals like dogs, jackals, wolves, cats, monkeys etc. More than 95% of the cases are bitten by dogs. It has the highest case fatality rate of any known human infection essentially 100%. It is the only communicable disease of man which is always fatal. </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">Objectives</span></u></b><u style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">: </span></u><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of rabies among adults. To associate the knowledge with the selected demographic variables<b>. </b></span><b style="text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN">Methods and Materials</span></u></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">: A descriptive study conducted in rural area with 100 samples, which excluding those who have taken ART. <b><u>Results</u></b><u>:</u></span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> The adults only 2% sample had excellent, 12(12%) were having very good knowledge score.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> The minimum score was 6 and the maximum score was 24, the mean score was </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">12.40 &plusmn; 3.232 <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">with a mean percentage score of </span>49.6<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">. <b><u>Discussion</u></b>: Only 2% sample had excellent knowledge, considering nature of diseases it is important to have excellence knowledge regarding vaccination and prevention of disease which contributing reducing mortality rate. The finding of this study revealed that only 12% sample had very good knowledge, which included there is need of aggressive health education strategies regarding rabies.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span>< /> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">< clear="all" style="page-eak-before:always;mso-eak-type:section-eak" /> </span></p>