Table 2.
The proportion of answers for knowledge question of healthcare professionals
| Category of question | Proportion of respondents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (N = 471) n (%) | Doctor (N = 186) n (%) | Nurse (N = 285) n (%) | P | ||
| Dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the bites of infective females of | Aedes aegypti | 405 (86.0) | 180 (96.8) | 225 (78.9) | < 0.0001 |
| Non-Aedes aegypti | 94 (19.9) | 47 (25.3) | 47 (16.6) | 0.02 | |
| Transmission route | Human to human via a bite of an infected mosquito | 428 (90.9) | 168 (90.3) | 260 (91.2) | 0.7 |
| Mother to fetus or neonate at parturition | 49 (10.4) | 28 (15.1) | 21 (7.4) | 0.007 | |
| Blood transfusion and Organ transplantation | 34 (7.2) | 25 (13.4) | 9 (3.2) | < 0.0001 | |
| Needle stick | 15 (3.2) | 7 (3.8) | 8 (2.8) | 0.5 | |
| Sexual intercourse | 3 (0.6) | 2 (1.1) | 1 (0.4) | 0.3 | |
| Time when the dengue mosquitoes likely to feed/bite. (Day time) | 149 (31.6) | 68 (36.6) | 81 (28.4) | 0.06 | |
| There are different serotypes of dengue and being infected with one of them gives lifelong immunity to that serotype. (True) | 243 (51.6) | 104 (55.9) | 139 (48.8) | 0.1 | |
| The common test that takes shorter time to diagnose acute recent infection of dengue virus (NS1 strip test) | 254 (53.9) | 97 (52.2) | 157 (55.1) | 0.5 | |
| The specific serological tool for the determination of dengue antibodies (IgM ELISA) | 202 (42.9) | 86 (46.2) | 116 (40.7) | 0.2 | |