Knowledge, attitude and practice of health care providers toward Ebola virus disease in hotspots in Khartoum and White Nile states, Sudan, 2014

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-23

  Alfaki, Musaab M ^a   Salih, Alaaddin M M ^a   Elhuda, Daffalla A'Lam ^a,b   Egail, Mohammad S ^a  

^a FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Ebola virus disease; Health care providers; Knowledge, attitude and practice; Sudan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MIDWIFE; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; STAFF TRAINING; SUDAN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MASS MEDIUM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; MASS MEDIA; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; SUDAN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954075100     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.07.035     Document Type: Article

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