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Knowledge assessment of snake antivenom among healthcare practitioners involving educational intervention in northern Nigeria: a study protocol

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posted on 2024-11-13, 02:42 authored by AA Bala, I Jatau Abubakar, I Yunusa, M Mohammed, A-KH Mohammed, AM Isa, AS Wada, KA Gulma, I Bello, GC Michael, S Malami, BZA Chedi
Introduction

Snakebite envenoming (SBE) is an important occupational and public health hazard especially in sub-Saharan Africa. For optimum management of SBE, adequate knowledge of Snake antivenom (SAV) is very critical among the healthcare practioners in this region. Information related to the knowledge of SAV use in the management of SBE, as well as SAV logistics is scarce among the Health Care Professionals (HCPs) in Nigeria, particularly in the northern region. We therefore aimed to develop, validate and utilize a tool to assess the SAV knowlegde among HCPs in northern Nigeria. We also sought to implement and evaluate an intervention that could improve the SAV knowledge among the HCPs.

Methods

The proposed study will be conducted in three phases: Phase I will involve the development of the item-pool to be included in the tool, followed by a face, content validity and construct validity. The tool reliability, readability and difficulty index will be determined. Phase II will involve the utilization of the tool to assess baseline SAV knowledge among the HCPs followed by an educational intervention. Multiple Linear Regression analysis will be used to determine the factors associated with SAV knowledge among the HCPs. Lastly, Phase III which will be a repeat of Phase II to assess and evaluate the knowledge after the intervention.

Discussion

The study design and findings may guide future implementation and streamline the intervention of improving SAV knowledge in HCPs training and practice.

History

Publication title

Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety

Volume

11

Pagination

1-7

ISSN

2042-0986

Department/School

Pharmacy

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd.

Publication status

  • Published online

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

Socio-economic Objectives

280112 Expanding knowledge in the health sciences

UN Sustainable Development Goals

3 Good Health and Well Being

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