Knowledge, attitudes and practice about zika

• Autor(a) principal: Sá Bastos Forrester, Mónica
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Cassiano, Keila Mara, Teodósio, Rosa M. F., Havik, Philip J., Wakimoto, Mayumi Duarte
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.25761/anaisihmt.343

In Brazil an outbreak caused by the zika virus was reported in 2015 and an estimated 1.5 million cases were reported in 2015 and 2016. This paper aims to describe knowledge, attitudes and practices about zika inpregnant and postpartum women of a high risk maternity hospital in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It aims to trace the profile of women, analyze the demographic, clinical and epidemiological characteristics, investigateknowledge, attitudes and practices about zika of these women and build a knowledge assessment score on the disease. This is a sectional study carried out using a structured questionnaire based on the WHO model. The score (EFWC) was elaborated to assess the degree of knowledge about zika. Most of pregnant and postpartum women considered the information they had about zika insufficient (71%) regarding signs and symptoms (68.3%), cause (67.5%), prevention (61.8%), consequences (57%). The score revealed that 1.6% of the women had no knowledge about zika; 58.5% of women had poor or inferior knowledge about zika. No correlation was found between income, schooling or age of the study population and knowledge about zika measured by the score.