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Table 2 The proportion of answers for knowledge question of healthcare professionals

From: Survey of knowledge, attitude and practice of healthcare professionals on dengue transmission, diagnosis and clinical classification

Category of question

Proportion of respondents

Total (N = 471) n (%)

Doctor (N = 186) n (%)

Nurse (N = 285) n (%)

P

Dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the bites of infective females of

Aedes aegypti

405 (86.0)

180 (96.8)

225 (78.9)

< 0.0001

Non-Aedes aegypti

94 (19.9)

47 (25.3)

47 (16.6)

0.02

Transmission route

Human to human via a bite of an infected mosquito

428 (90.9)

168 (90.3)

260 (91.2)

0.7

Mother to fetus or neonate at parturition

49 (10.4)

28 (15.1)

21 (7.4)

0.007

Blood transfusion and Organ transplantation

34 (7.2)

25 (13.4)

9 (3.2)

< 0.0001

Needle stick

15 (3.2)

7 (3.8)

8 (2.8)

0.5

Sexual intercourse

3 (0.6)

2 (1.1)

1 (0.4)

0.3

Time when the dengue mosquitoes likely to feed/bite. (Day time)

149 (31.6)

68 (36.6)

81 (28.4)

0.06

There are different serotypes of dengue and being infected with one of them gives lifelong immunity to that serotype. (True)

243 (51.6)

104 (55.9)

139 (48.8)

0.1

The common test that takes shorter time to diagnose acute recent infection of dengue virus (NS1 strip test)

254 (53.9)

97 (52.2)

157 (55.1)

0.5

The specific serological tool for the determination of dengue antibodies (IgM ELISA)

202 (42.9)

86 (46.2)

116 (40.7)

0.2