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KMID : 0378019730160050065
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New Medical Journal
1973 Volume.16 No. 5 p.65 ~ p.69
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Knowledge and Attitude About Typhoid Fever for Residents Residing in Rural Area
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尹能基/Yoon, Nung Ki
白宗欽/崔種烋/李性寬/Paik, Jong Hum/Choi, Jong Hyu/Lee, Sung Kwan
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Abstract
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Typhoid fever is quite prevalent in Korea, while most other communicable diseases have been decreasing since World War II; typhoid fever remains a minacing disease.
Every year it accounts for serveral thousands of patients, especially in an explosive outbreak in the rural area.
The most important cause of the epidemic seems to be the lack of environmental sanitation especially unsanitary water supply. Therefore it could be prevented through personal hygine and fly control. The purpose of this survey was to find out the level of knowledge about typhoid fever among the residents in the rural area.
The results were as follows:
The rate of recognition of the term typhoid fever was 61 percent. Regarding its causative agent, more than half of them did not know its cause only 26 percent of the respondents answered the bacteria as a causative agent.
Regarding the mode of transmission, contaminated food and water rated 45 and 23 percent respec tively and 21 percent of them answered mosquitoes as an important vector.
Regarding the route of escape of the agent, fifty percent of the respondents did not know about any route, 30 percent of them answered through the gastrointestinal tract while 20 percent of them answered through the respiratory tract.
Eighty percent believed the preventive measure was vaccination when the disease occurrs; two thirds would go to a private clinic or health center while a third have stayed at home taking medicine from a drugstore.
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