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. 2021 Aug 19;8:699352. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.699352

Table 1.

Overview of the KAP questions.

Category Questions
Demographic data of the respondents (1) district where the residence is located (2) age (3) gender (4) education (5) main occupation (6) religion (7) income (8) type and number of pets (9) house ownership status (10) fence and gate (11) number of house members and their age (12) community roles
Knowledge The questions asked about knowledge on (1) rabid animal species (2) seasonal restriction of the rabies outbreak (3) clinical signs (4) transmission (5) treatment of infected animals or humans (6) prevention by vaccine (7) first shot of dog vaccination (8) repeated vaccination annually (9) vaccine retention (10) vaccination in sick animals (11) prevention by ears and tail cutting
Attitudes The questions asked about opinion on (1) harmfulness of rabies to pets and humans (2) annual vaccination (3) destruction of bitten dogs (4) destruction of stray dogs (5) sterilization (6) responsibility for the cost of vaccination (7) notification of suspected rabid dogs (8) identification and registration of dogs and cats (8) offense to the law in case of dog releasing in public place (9) stray dog quarantine
Practices (1) rabies vaccination history for their dogs (2) vaccination practices (3) vaccine price willing to pay (4) sterilization of dogs (5) area restriction of dogs (6) dog saliva exposure avoiding (7) experience of encountering rabid dogs and notification to government agency (8) history of rabid dog exposure of their dogs and their action taking (9) rabies case-finding action (10) channels to receive rabies outbreak information