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Medwave. 2015 May 8;15(4):e6136. doi: 10.5867/medwave.2015.04.6136.
[h=1][Knowledge, practices and attitudes toward volunteer work in an influenza pandemic: cross-sectional study with Peruvian medical students].[/h] [Article in Spanish]
Huapaya JA[SUP]1[/SUP], Maquera-Afaray J[SUP]2[/SUP], Garc?a PJ[SUP]3[/SUP], C?rcamo C[SUP]4[/SUP], Cieza JA[SUP]4[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] in English, Spanish
[h=4]INTRODUCTION:[/h] Reductions in health personnel during disasters or epidemics such as an influenza pandemic may need to include volunteer students.
[h=4]OBJECTIVE:[/h] The aim of this article is to determine knowledge and practices about pandemic influenza and the attitudes towards volunteer work in Peruvian medical students.
[h=4]METHODS:[/h] We performed a cross-sectional analytic study by simple sampling using a survey regarding “knowledge and practices” about pandemic influenza and the attitudes to volunteer work.
[h=4]RESULTS:[/h] From the group of 865 students who were surveyed, 848 accepted to participate in the investigation (54% were male and their mean age was 22.1 ? 3.0). Ninety-seven percent correctly identified the spread routes of influenza and 81% knew its treatment. Regarding preventive measures, covering the mouth when coughing/sneezing and hand-washing were the most commonly recognized options (95% y 92%, respectively), and vaccination was the less recognized one (54%). The most common practice, readily acknowledged as preventive, was covering when coughing/sneezing (86%). Regarding volunteer works, students answered that it is a moral/ethical/professional obligation (77%); that a contingency university service needs to be established (88%), that it does not have to substitute for the lack of workers (49%), and that its role should be related to hospital work (83%). Coming from a public university was more associated to the concept that volunteer work was a moral obligation and that the student should be punished if he/she refuses to be a volunteer, whereas being from a private university was more related to a history of been involved in volunteering programs.
[h=4]CONCLUSIONS:[/h] In general, medical students have good knowledge and practices toward influenza. There is a good disposition to volunteer their work and skills, recognizing it as a moral/ethical/professional obligation.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] attitudes; disease outbreaks; health knowledge; influenza virus; medical students; practice; volunteers
PMID: 26010125 [PubMed - in process]
[h=1][Knowledge, practices and attitudes toward volunteer work in an influenza pandemic: cross-sectional study with Peruvian medical students].[/h] [Article in Spanish]
Huapaya JA[SUP]1[/SUP], Maquera-Afaray J[SUP]2[/SUP], Garc?a PJ[SUP]3[/SUP], C?rcamo C[SUP]4[/SUP], Cieza JA[SUP]4[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] in English, Spanish
[h=4]INTRODUCTION:[/h] Reductions in health personnel during disasters or epidemics such as an influenza pandemic may need to include volunteer students.
[h=4]OBJECTIVE:[/h] The aim of this article is to determine knowledge and practices about pandemic influenza and the attitudes towards volunteer work in Peruvian medical students.
[h=4]METHODS:[/h] We performed a cross-sectional analytic study by simple sampling using a survey regarding “knowledge and practices” about pandemic influenza and the attitudes to volunteer work.
[h=4]RESULTS:[/h] From the group of 865 students who were surveyed, 848 accepted to participate in the investigation (54% were male and their mean age was 22.1 ? 3.0). Ninety-seven percent correctly identified the spread routes of influenza and 81% knew its treatment. Regarding preventive measures, covering the mouth when coughing/sneezing and hand-washing were the most commonly recognized options (95% y 92%, respectively), and vaccination was the less recognized one (54%). The most common practice, readily acknowledged as preventive, was covering when coughing/sneezing (86%). Regarding volunteer works, students answered that it is a moral/ethical/professional obligation (77%); that a contingency university service needs to be established (88%), that it does not have to substitute for the lack of workers (49%), and that its role should be related to hospital work (83%). Coming from a public university was more associated to the concept that volunteer work was a moral obligation and that the student should be punished if he/she refuses to be a volunteer, whereas being from a private university was more related to a history of been involved in volunteering programs.
[h=4]CONCLUSIONS:[/h] In general, medical students have good knowledge and practices toward influenza. There is a good disposition to volunteer their work and skills, recognizing it as a moral/ethical/professional obligation.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] attitudes; disease outbreaks; health knowledge; influenza virus; medical students; practice; volunteers
PMID: 26010125 [PubMed - in process]