Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Delhi
Introduction: People living with chronic viral hepatitis in India often lack awareness on risk factors and prevention. Moreover, due to fear of stigma and discrimination, they often delay appropriate and timely treatment, resulting in chronic treatment and impoverishment. The objective of this study...
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| description | Introduction: People living with chronic viral hepatitis in India often lack awareness on risk factors and prevention. Moreover, due to fear of stigma and discrimination, they often delay appropriate and timely treatment, resulting in chronic treatment and impoverishment. The objective of this study is to assess knowledge, awareness, and prevention regarding risk factors among viral hepatitis-infected patients attending a super-specialty hospital in Delhi.
Material and Methods: Data were collected from 389 patients using systematically random sampling using a pretested, structured interview schedule from patients attending Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi.
Results: Findings revealed that 90.7% of the respondents believed that hepatitis B virus/hepatitis C virus (HBV/HCV) can be transmitted through sexual contact with a person who is infected, 94.3% said that it can be transmitted by transfusion of infected blood, 90% reported that it can be spread from infected mother to child during child birth, 93.8% responded that it can be transmitted if a person uses a razor, pierced ear ring, needle, or syringe used by an infected person, 83% believed that HBV/HCV can cause cancer in 90% of the respondents in long run, and more than 35% believed that HBV/HCV is curable. Results also show that 7.2% of the respondents have been vaccinated for HBV infection in the past, 20.8% of the respondents have screened their families for hepatitis B infections, and 77.9% of the respondents have received antiviral medications.
Conclusion: HBV/HCV-infected patients had less knowledge about various facts regarding disease and continue to experience emotional disturbances, stigma, and discrimination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1763f10718ec4750810263b8a9a89c8e2023-03-21T08:41:50ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Community and Family Medicine2395-21132022-01-0182939810.4103/ijcfm.ijcfm_9_22Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in DelhiV K TiwariP BalsundaramT. P. Sherin RajIntroduction: People living with chronic viral hepatitis in India often lack awareness on risk factors and prevention. Moreover, due to fear of stigma and discrimination, they often delay appropriate and timely treatment, resulting in chronic treatment and impoverishment. The objective of this study is to assess knowledge, awareness, and prevention regarding risk factors among viral hepatitis-infected patients attending a super-specialty hospital in Delhi. Material and Methods: Data were collected from 389 patients using systematically random sampling using a pretested, structured interview schedule from patients attending Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi. Results: Findings revealed that 90.7% of the respondents believed that hepatitis B virus/hepatitis C virus (HBV/HCV) can be transmitted through sexual contact with a person who is infected, 94.3% said that it can be transmitted by transfusion of infected blood, 90% reported that it can be spread from infected mother to child during child birth, 93.8% responded that it can be transmitted if a person uses a razor, pierced ear ring, needle, or syringe used by an infected person, 83% believed that HBV/HCV can cause cancer in 90% of the respondents in long run, and more than 35% believed that HBV/HCV is curable. Results also show that 7.2% of the respondents have been vaccinated for HBV infection in the past, 20.8% of the respondents have screened their families for hepatitis B infections, and 77.9% of the respondents have received antiviral medications. Conclusion: HBV/HCV-infected patients had less knowledge about various facts regarding disease and continue to experience emotional disturbances, stigma, and discrimination.http://www.ijcfm.org/article.asp?issn=2395-2113;year=2022;volume=8;issue=2;spage=93;epage=98;aulast=Tiwaridiscriminationhepatitis b virushepatitis c virusknowledge and awarenessrisk preventionstigma |
| spellingShingle | V K Tiwari P Balsundaram T. P. Sherin Raj Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Delhi Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine discrimination hepatitis b virus hepatitis c virus knowledge and awareness risk prevention stigma |
| title | Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Delhi |
| title_full | Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Delhi |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Delhi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Delhi |
| title_short | Knowledge, awareness, and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Delhi |
| title_sort | knowledge awareness and risk prevention among hepatitis patients attending a tertiary care hospital in delhi |
| topic | discrimination hepatitis b virus hepatitis c virus knowledge and awareness risk prevention stigma |
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