دورية أكاديمية
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of farmers about transmission of zoonotic diseases in Ada’a district, Oromia, Ethiopia
العنوان: | Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of farmers about transmission of zoonotic diseases in Ada’a district, Oromia, Ethiopia |
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المؤلفون: | Fufa Abunna, Girma Gebresenbet, Bekele Megersa |
المصدر: | Heliyon, Vol 10, Iss 4, Pp e25713- (2024) |
بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2024. |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Science (General) LCC:Social sciences (General) |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Livestock keepers, Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Zoonoses, Ethiopia, Science (General), Q1-390, Social sciences (General), H1-99 |
الوصف: | In developing countries like Ethiopia, zoonotic diseases pose a significant health and economic burden, with high exposure of farmers to zoonotic infection given the prevailing traditional husbandry practices. A cross-sectional survey involving 388 farmers in the Ada'a district central Ethiopia was conducted to investigate their knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding the transmission of zoonotic diseases. The respondents' mean age was 41.0 ± 10.0 SD years. The majority of respondents (39.4%) were between the ages of 41 and 50, and 90.0% were married. Farmers claimed that conversations with family, colleagues, and friends were the primary sources of zoonoses information. Farmers stated that the primary sources of information on zoonotic diseases as community. They had a relatively low level (66.8%) of knowledge on zoonotic diseases and half of them (54.9%) did not have good information on zoonoses. Three-quarters (75.2%) of the farmers reported that they neither consume meat and milk nor use offal and hide/skin from sick or dead animals. Similarly, 71.1% of them stated that they do not eat meat from regularly aborting sheep/goats, and never consume raw meat and milk. Most of the respondents correctly answered that raw meat (82.7%) and raw milk (79.9%) are means of disease transmission from animals to humans. However, considerable proportions of them were unaware of zoonotic transmission of bovine tuberculosis (61.3%) and brucellosis (74.7%) transmission through raw milk intakes, and risk of taeniasis (71%) due to raw meat consumption. But, considerable proportions had never dewormed (48.7%), or tested their animals for brucellosis (82.7%) and bovine tuberculosis (83.3%), and more than three quarters (77.3%) did not used personal protective equipment when handling sick animals. Farmers who had a secondary education or above (OR = 6.8, CI = 2.4–18.0, p = 0.004), aged between 41 and 50 years (OR = 3.0, 95% CI: 1.2–7.2, p = 0.015), and those having good knowledge (OR = 2.1, CI = 1.3–3.5, p = 0.002), and positive attitude related to zoonotic diseases (OR = 7.8, CI = 4.7–12.9, p |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 2405-8440 |
Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024017444; https://doaj.org/toc/2405-8440 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25713 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/669ed7b210154a408b44f911770c95be |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.669ed7b210154a408b44f911770c95be |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 24058440 |
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DOI: | 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25713 |