Knowledge, attitude, and practice of rabies postexposure prophylaxis among young doctors

Abstract

Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of young doctors on rabies prophylaxis and to determine the impact of the interactive lecture on the KAP of young doctors. Methods: After the formulation of the questionnaire, and review by the faculty of Medical Education, the access web link of the questionnaire was shared in What'sApp with all the young doctors of the hospital. After collecting pretest data, an interactive lecture was delivered, after the lecture, the same questionnaire was again shared, and responses were collected and analyzed. Results: All the young doctors who participated in the study acquired good KAP on rabies prophylaxis, overall 6% of doctors corrected themselves and there was an improvement in rightly answering 11 questions. Conclusion: KAP survey can be an effective tool in achieving the goal for imparting knowledge regarding effective disease prevention and management.

Keywords

• attitude
• and practice questionnaire
• education
• interactive lecture
• knowledge
• rabies prophylaxis