ArticleJournal of public health in Africa2022
Knowledge and practices among healthcare workers regarding dengue in Togo.
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- Knowledge and perceptions on dengue among internship medical students and rural physicians in Ecuador: a cross-sectional study, 2025.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Doctors' knowledge, attitudes, and practices in managing dengue fever amid war: A study in three governmental hospitals in Port Sudan, Red Sea State, Sudan (2024).SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
- Dengue diagnosis and impact on clinical management: A literature review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Review
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding dengue vaccine: a baseline study of community members and health providers in Indonesia.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2025Article
- Assessment of knowledge and practices towards the diagnosis of arboviral infections amongst healthcare workers in Lagos State and the Federal Capital Territory: a cross-sectional study.The Pan African medical journal · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of health care professionals regarding dengue fever: need for training and provision of diagnostic equipment in Togo in 2022, a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Health professionals' knowledge on dengue and health facility preparedness for case detection: A cross-sectional study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
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Abstract
In Togo where malaria is endemic, because main signs of malaria and dengue are similar, the use of malarial drugs first could contribute to a delay in the diagnosis of dengue and the dissemination of the disease. Thus, it is important that healthcare workers (HCW) have a good knowledge of these diseases. To assess the knowledge, and practices regarding dengue infection among HCW in Togo. A cross-sectional study was carried out from November 2020 to March 2021 among HCW in Togo. A pre-tested digital questionnaire was used for data collection. Based on clinical signs of dengue, preventive measures, infection type and disease type, a knowledge score was constructed with eight questions. A total of 334 HCW with median age 32 years, IQR:(28-38) responded to the survey and the sex ratio male/female was 5.9. The majority (94.0%) of HCW have heard about dengue through training (73.3%), internet (38.0%) and media (33.2%). Compared with lower executive HCW, senior manager were more knowledgeable about the causative agent, the symptoms and preventive methods of dengue infection (p<0.001). Globally, good knowledge (score ≥6) about dengue was found for 47.1% of HCW. More than 9 out of 10 HCW (91.3%) reported the lack of dengue diagnostic tools. Providing health structures with dengue diagnostic tools and training health personnel in their use in any febrile patient with a negative or positive malaria test would help prevent dengue epidemic.
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