Short Communication
Year: 2014 | Month: January | Volume: 4 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 160-164
Awareness of Medical Interns Regarding Recent Guidelines of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme of India
Rahul R. Bogam
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College, Maharashtra, Pune, India.
Corresponding Author: Rahul R. Bogam
ABSTRACT
Background: The medical interns may sometimes a first contact health care provider of patients in teaching hospital as well as secondary and tertiary care hospital and needs to be sensitized towards RNTCP recent policies and strategies in order to reduce TB burden. The present study was undertaken with an objective of assessing knowledge level of medical interns, about various aspects of recent guidelines of RNTCP pertaining to diagnosis and management of TB, with emphasis on MDR and XDR-TB.
Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted at one of the randomly selected private medical colleges of Western Maharashtra. A pretested questionnaire was distributed to 102 medical interns and responses were collected. The data was entered in Microsoft office excel sheet and analyzed.
Results: Of 102 participants, 61(59.80%) were males and 41(40.20%) interns were females. All participants were in the age bracket of 22-24 years with mean age of 22.85 years. In present study, poor knowledge was observed amongst medical interns regarding recent guidelines of RNTCP i.e. Mean score (S.D.) out of 15 = 6.46 (1.55).
Conclusions: The study reported inadequacies in the knowledge of recent guidelines of RNTCP amongst medical interns.
Key words: awareness, medical interns, RNTCP, recent guidelines, tuberculosis