Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in Selangor
Background: Outbreaks of hand foot mouth disease (HFMD) is endemic in Malaysia and causes outbreaks and deaths amongst young children. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and awareness towards HFMD and their associated determinants among parents in Malaysia. Methods: A community-based...
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| description | Background: Outbreaks of hand foot mouth disease (HFMD) is endemic in Malaysia and causes outbreaks and deaths amongst young children. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and awareness towards HFMD and their associated determinants among parents in Malaysia. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted between January and March 2020 in Selangor state of Malaysia using a self-administered survey. The validated questionnaires were distributed to parents with children attending kindergartens in the nine districts of Selangor through multistage sampling. Logistic regression was used to estimate the differences in knowledge and awareness between groups and to identify their associated variables. Results: We received 690 participant responses of which 485 were included in the final analysis. We found that only 34.4% of parents had good knowledge and 78.1% had good awareness of HFMD. The multivariate analysis found that those who were working in the private sectors had lower odds of having good knowledge compared to those who were working in the public sectors, adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 0.59; 95%CI: 0.36–0.97. Compared to Malay, Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indian had lower odds of having good awareness with aOR: 0.48; 95%CI: 0.29–0.81 and aOR: 0.44; 95%CI: 0.23–0.83, respectively. Conclusion: Although parents' awareness was relatively high, they have poor knowledge on HFMD in particular to identify the symptoms of severe cases, basic treatment and preventive measures of HFMD. HFMD information needs to be communicated in a simplified language including in online communications to improve parents’ knowledge and awareness of HFMD. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f18e9c1ad8a476dac494af9dd13672d2022-12-22T02:39:05ZengElsevierClinical Epidemiology and Global Health2213-39842022-05-0115101027Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in SelangorYogambigai Rajamoorthy0Ong Hooi Tin1Niazlin Mohd Taib2Subramaniam Munusamy3Abram Luther Wagner4Mudatsir Mudatsir5Aye Aye Khin6Samsul Anwar7Shaufique Fahmi Sidique8Harapan Harapan9Department of Economics, Faculty of Accountancy and Management, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long Campus, Cheras, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia; Corresponding author. Department of Economics, Faculty of Accountancy and Management, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long Campus, Jalan Sungai Long, Cheras, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.Department of Pre-clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long Campus, Cheras, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaSchool of Management and Business, Manipal International University, 71800, Putra Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, MalaysiaDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USADepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, IndonesiaDepartment of Economics, Faculty of Accountancy and Management, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long Campus, Cheras, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, IndonesiaSchool of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Tropical Disease Centre, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; Corresponding author. Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Jl. T. Tanoeh Abe, Darussalam, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia.Background: Outbreaks of hand foot mouth disease (HFMD) is endemic in Malaysia and causes outbreaks and deaths amongst young children. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and awareness towards HFMD and their associated determinants among parents in Malaysia. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted between January and March 2020 in Selangor state of Malaysia using a self-administered survey. The validated questionnaires were distributed to parents with children attending kindergartens in the nine districts of Selangor through multistage sampling. Logistic regression was used to estimate the differences in knowledge and awareness between groups and to identify their associated variables. Results: We received 690 participant responses of which 485 were included in the final analysis. We found that only 34.4% of parents had good knowledge and 78.1% had good awareness of HFMD. The multivariate analysis found that those who were working in the private sectors had lower odds of having good knowledge compared to those who were working in the public sectors, adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 0.59; 95%CI: 0.36–0.97. Compared to Malay, Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indian had lower odds of having good awareness with aOR: 0.48; 95%CI: 0.29–0.81 and aOR: 0.44; 95%CI: 0.23–0.83, respectively. Conclusion: Although parents' awareness was relatively high, they have poor knowledge on HFMD in particular to identify the symptoms of severe cases, basic treatment and preventive measures of HFMD. HFMD information needs to be communicated in a simplified language including in online communications to improve parents’ knowledge and awareness of HFMD.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398422000690HFMDKnowledgeAttitudeMalaysiaPrevention |
| spellingShingle | Yogambigai Rajamoorthy Ong Hooi Tin Niazlin Mohd Taib Subramaniam Munusamy Abram Luther Wagner Mudatsir Mudatsir Aye Aye Khin Samsul Anwar Shaufique Fahmi Sidique Harapan Harapan Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in Selangor Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health HFMD Knowledge Attitude Malaysia Prevention |
| title | Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in Selangor |
| title_full | Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in Selangor |
| title_fullStr | Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in Selangor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in Selangor |
| title_short | Parents’ knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in Malaysia: A survey in Selangor |
| title_sort | parents knowledge and awareness towards hand foot mouth disease in malaysia a survey in selangor |
| topic | HFMD Knowledge Attitude Malaysia Prevention |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398422000690 |
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