Open Access
Research
(Published
online: 26-09-2016)
17.
Socio-demographic study on extent
of knowledge, awareness, attitude, and risks of zoonotic
diseases among livestock owners in Puducherry region -
K. Rajkumar, A. Bhattacharya, S. David, S. Hari Balaji, R.
Hariharan, M. Jayakumar and N. Balaji
Veterinary World, 9(9): 1018-1024
doi:
10.14202/vetworld.2016.1018-1024
K. Rajkumar:
Department of
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Veterinary Education and Research, Puducherry - 605
009, India; rajvet10@gmail.com
A. Bhattacharya:
Department of
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Veterinary Education and Research, Puducherry - 605
009, India; anjanbhattacharya97@gmail.com
S. David:
Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rajiv
Gandhi Institute of Veterinary Education and Research,
Puducherry - 605 009, India; davidjack708@gmail.com
S. Hari Balaji:
Department of
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Veterinary Education and Research, Puducherry - 605
009, India; haribalajichandra30@gmail.com
R. Hariharan:
Department of
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Veterinary Education and Research, Puducherry - 605
009, India; hariharanram1996@gmail.com
M. Jayakumar:
Department of
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Veterinary Education and Research, Puducherry - 605
009, India; jayakumar1698@gmail.com
N. Balaji:
Department of
Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Veterinary Education and Research, Puducherry - 605
009, India; balang248@gmail.com
Received: 20-05-2016, Accepted: 19-08-2016, Published online:
26-09-2016
Corresponding author:
K.
Rajkumar, e-mail: rajvet10@gmail.com
Citation:
Rajkumar K, Bhattacharya A, David S, Balaji SH, Hariharan R,
Jayakumar M, Balaji N (2016) Socio-demographic study on extent
of knowledge, awareness, attitude, and risks of zoonotic
diseases among livestock owners in Puducherry region,
Veterinary World, 9(9): 1018-1024.
Abstract
Aim:
This study
was conducted to assess the extent of knowledge, awareness,
attitude, and risks of zoonotic diseases among livestock owners
in Puducherry region.
Materials and
Methods:
A total of 250
livestock farmers were selected randomly from eight revenue
villages. And each farmer was interviewed with a questionnaire
containing both open- and close-ended questions on various
aspects of zoonotic diseases, a total of 49 questionnaires were
framed to assess the source and transmission of infection to the
farmers and to test their knowledge and awareness about zoonotic
diseases. The data collected were analyzed by chi-square test
using software Graph pad prism, and results were used to assess
the relationship between education level and zoonotic disease
awareness; risk of zoonotic diseases and its relation with
independent variables.
Results:
The
present survey analysis represents that most of the respondents
are belonging to the age group of 41-60 years. About 42.8% of
respondents’ household having a graduate. The most of the
respondent are small-scale farmers and their monthly income was
less than Rs. 10,000. About 61.2% of farmers were keeping their
animal shed clean. About 29.6% of the respondents were ignorant
about cleaning the dog bitten wound. Only 16.4% of respondents
knew that diseases in animals can be transmitted to humans. Only
4.8%, 3.6%, 6.8%, and 22.4% of respondents knew about the
zoonotic potential of diseases such as brucellosis, tuberculosis
(TB), anthrax, and avian flu, respectively. Only 18% of the
respondents were aware about zoonotic diseases from cattle.
Regarding the list of zoonotic diseases contracted, 37.7%
reported respiratory infection, 31.1% digestive disturbances,
15.5% had dermatological problem, and 15.5% reported indiscrete
disease such as fever, body pain, and headache joint pain. From
the respondent got the zoonotic disease (n=45), 51.2% of the
respondent reported chronic infection and 48.8% of the
respondent reported acute form of zoonotic infection. About 30%
of the respondents’ farm had an incidence of abortion. Our
analyses showed that there was significant in educational level
of respondents and treatment of dog bitten animals. Furthermore,
there was statistical significance in occurrence of hand and
foot lesions in the respondent and occurrence of foot-and-mouth
disease outbreak in their animals.
Conclusion:
From
this study, it is concluded that involvement of educated family
members in farming practices can create awareness and improve
knowledge toward zoonotic disease. Further creation of awareness
toward zoonotic diseases is of utmost important.
Keywords:
attitude, awareness, livestock farmers, risk, zoonotic disease.
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