A Study on Awareness Regarding Swine Flu (Influenza A H1N1) PANDEMIC IN AN Urban Community of Maharashtra
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 8
Abstract
Swine flu disease is pandemic and is widely spread across the India. More number of swine flu cases is rising in India and Maharashtra. As minimal literature is available on awareness of swine flu in this area .So this study was conducted to assess the awareness of swine flu disease in urban slum population of Miraj city. Maharashtra It was a cross – sectional study about knowledge, attitude and practice about swine flu disease among urban slum population (adopted community of tertiary care hospital) of Miraj city Maharashtra for period of one month among 217 study subjects. Subjects were selected by systematic random sampling method. The data analysis was done by using frequency and proportion after entering in Microsoft excel. Most of study subjects were Male (63.13%).With regard to age group most of them were in 50-59 years of age group. Inhalation was most common route of transmission i.e. 57.6%. Fever was the most common symptom known to majority of the participants in our study [80.18%], Hand washing was most common preventive measure adopted by majority of subjects. Mass media was most common source of information to the study subjects. Awareness of swine flu among study subjects was not so good, as most of them confused the transmission route of A/H1N1. There are many factors influencing the KAP related to A/H1N1 which can be brought up to the knowledge of the masses through health education. Keywords: Swine flu, urban, Miraj, awareness, H1N1,Pandemic
Authors and Affiliations
Naik JD, Swapnil Jain, Babar SD, Mathurkar M. P, Kamble SV, Patil V
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