ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Healthcare Professionals and Students' Awareness of Chagas Disease: Design and Validation of Chagas Level of Knowledge Scale (ChaLKS).
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- Prevalence of Chagas disease among Latin American immigrants in non-endemic countries: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
- Knowledge about Chagas Disease among Family and Community Medicine Residents in a Non-Endemic Region: A Cross-Sectional Study.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Cystic echinococcosis in a Moroccan boy: a silent and neglected disease among refugee and migrant children.BMJ case reports · 2022Article
- Roadblocks in Chagas disease care in endemic and nonendemic countries: Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States. The NET-Heart project.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Review
- Community-based screening of Chagas disease among Latin American migrants in a non-endemic country: an observational study.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2021Observational
- Chagas disease screening in pregnant Latin American women: Adherence to a systematic screening protocol in a non-endemic country.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Assessing the effectiveness of Chagas disease education for healthcare providers in the United States.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
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Abstract
There are few studies evaluating awareness of Chagas disease among healthcare professionals attending migrants from Latin America or working in Chagas-endemic areas. The objective of this study was to design and validate instruments for assessing knowledge about Chagas disease among healthcare students and residents as well as students and professionals of social and other health science disciplines. Two validated scales have been developed: the 10-item Chagas Level of Knowledge Scale for healthcare professionals (ChaLKS-Medical) and the 8-item ChaLKS-Social&Health for potential aid workers from those fields. Both scales were considered adequate in terms of readability, internal consistency, construct validity, and discriminant validity. The mean number of correct answers on the ChaLKS-Medical among respondents from non-healthcare versus healthcare sectors was 1.80 versus 7.00 (
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