Knowledge and management practices regarding dengue fever among doctors of tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Worldwide incessantly menace “Dengue Fever” is a health phenomenon nowadays. We targeted three big provinces of Pakistan including Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber Pukhtoon Khwan. It makes a figure of 21,580 dengue cases and out of them, 317 patients fall in death group. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional case-control study has been conducted at the general tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Physicians, Residents and Interns from all the specialty of targeted the hospital, were included. Four major sections were plotted i.e. general and specified knowledge of Dengue, Dengue symptoms knowledge, Knowledge of practices and management practices of Dengue fever. Results: A randomized sample of 378 respondents was collected during the time period. In General, from 80 to 97% physician mark the correct answer of Dengue Fever Knowledge. It was strongly commented by the results that physicians have advance knowledge of Dengue symptoms. It was also observed that almost every physician has the knowledge Aspirin and Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs must be avoided during the dengue fever or shock syndrome. Conclusion: In spite of a major number of dengue patients in hit list cities, physicians have lack of knowledge about certain topics. Advance knowledge about dengue, symptomatic illness like pain behind the back of eyes is a symptom of dengue, vaccines of dengue, practices, and medication which should not be given to dengue fever or shock patients were found to be Do Not Know by the selected hospital physicians