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Knowledge and attitude towards pregnancy-related issues of Zika virus infection among general practitioners in Indonesia

Harapan H 1 , Rajamoorthy Y 2 , Utomo PS 3 , Anwar S 4 , Setiawan AM 5 , Alleta A 6 Show all authors , Bambang A 7 , Ramadana MR 6 , Ikram I 6 , Wahyuniati N 6 , Maulana R 6 , Ichsan I 6 , Indah R 8 , Wagner AL 9 , Kuch U 10 , Groneberg DA 10 , Rodríguez-Morales AJ 11 , Andalas M 6 , Müller R 10 , Mudatsir M 12 , Imrie A 13

Affiliations 

  • 1 Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. harapan@unsyiah.ac.id
  • 2 Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
  • 4 Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
  • 5 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University of Malang, Malang, Indonesia
  • 6 Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
  • 7 Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 8 Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
  • 9 Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • 10 Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 11 Public Health and Infection Research Incubator and Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
  • 12 Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. mudatsir@unsyiah.ac.id
  • 13 School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
BMC Infect Dis, 2019 Aug 06;19(1):693.
PMID: 31387537 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-4297-4

Abstract

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.

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