Effect of tuberculosis training on community health workers’ knowledge: a cluster randomized control trial in South Nigeria

Name	World Continuing Education Alliance
Activity Title	Effect of tuberculosis training on community health workers’ knowledge: a cluster randomized control trial in South Nigeria
Details	One of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as contained in the SDG target 3.3 is to end the tuberculosis epidemic by the year 2030. This End TB Strategy defines as a targets for 2030, a 90% reduction in the number of TB deaths and an 80% reduction in the TB incidence rate (new cases per 100 000 population per year) compared with levels in 2015.. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis rests largely on the healthcare workers. Health care workers knowledge and attitude with respect to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB is vital in TB elimination.. Countries with good TB knowledge scores have been shown to have better TB indices with respect to treatment and prevention. In Iran, 98.4% of healthcare workers had a 'good' score for knowledge of TB with 98.2% who correctly answered that TB transmission is through the respiratory tract, 90% acknowledged TB is a treatable disease, and only 12.6% of them were oblivious that it is caused by a bacterium.. A s...
Competence	Public Health
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Event Time	03:15 PM
Location	World Continuing Education Alliance eLearning System
Cost (UGX)	0
CPD Points	1