Ebola virus disease - gaps in knowledge and practice among healthcare workers in Lagos, August 2014

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1162-1170

  Oladimeji, Abisola M ^a   Gidado, Saheed ^a   Nguku, Patrick ^a   Nwangwu, Iruoma Genevieve ^b   Patil, Nikhil D ^c   Oladosu, Femi ^c   Roberts, Alero Ann ^d   Waziri, Ndadilnasiya E ^a   Shuaib, Faisal ^e   Oguntimehin, Olukayode ^f   Musa, Emmanuel ^g   Nasidi, Abdulsalami ^h   Adewuyi, Peter ^a   Olayinka, Adebola ^a   Odubanjo, Oladoyin ^d   Poggensee, Gabriele ^a  

^a Nigerian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^c EHealth Africa System   (Nigeria)

^d LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

^e Ministry of Federal Health Nigeria   (Nigeria)

^f Lagos State Primary Health Care Board   (Nigeria)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^h NIGERIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Ebola virus disease; Healthcare workers; Infection control; Knowledge; Nigeria; Practices

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SAMPLING; TRAINING; VIRAL DISEASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NIGERIA; PHYSICIAN; RASH; SOCIAL ASPECT; SORE THROAT; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

LAGOS [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA;

EBOLA VIRUS;

EID: 84937632460     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12528     Document Type: Article

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