Evaluation Of Pre Test And Post Test Knowledge After Intensive ICTC Team Training Among Health Care Workers In Bhavnagar District
Evaluation Of Knowledge After Intensive ICTC Team Training
Keywords:
HIV/AIDS, ICTC Team Training, Health Care Workers, Knowledge AssessmentAbstract
Background & Objectives: HIV counselling and testing services are a key entry point to prevention of HIV infection, and to treatment and care of people who are infected with HIV. In Gujarat at present 308 ICTC are functioning out of them 19 are functioning in Bhavnagar District. ICTC team training produce skilled personnel who can identify their client problems, are well informed and can provide high quality HIV related services so the objective of this study is to study knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS & Counselling amongst staff of ICTC running in Bhavnagar District. Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted among participant of ICTC team Training during April 2011-May 2011. Results: The knowledge of participant regarding HIV/AIDS and Counselling aspects improved significantly after intervention. Interpretation & Conclusion: The informative & educable intervention definitely has a positive effect on awareness levels which would eventually encourage expansion of knowledge & help in improve the skill of counselling and positive attitude towards the client coming at different ICTC centre and increase the service utilization by client so this type of inductive training for newly appointed health care workers and refresher training for health workers, who employed longer than one year should be organized on regular basis for effectively utilization of ICTC.
References
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Conflict of interest: None
Funding: None
Annexure 1:
1. When HIV spreads in the general population and HIV prevalence is consistently over 1% in pregnant women, this is described as
a. Low-level epidemic
b. Concentrated epidemic
c. Generalized epidemic
2. HIV has 2 subtypes. The more common subtype in India is
a. HIV-2
b. HIV-1
c. HIV-3
3. Opportunistic infections are so called because has 2 subtypes.
a. They do not infect HIV negative persons
b. They take advantage of the immune system that is weakened by the HIV
c. They infect HIV positive individuals at home
4. Which of the following is a common opportunistic infection in India?
a. Tuberculosis
b. Avian flu
c. Worm infections
5. You can definitely confirm that a person is infected with HIV using an ELISA test
a. In the first week after infection
b. after the window period
c. Any time after HIV virus enters blood
6. Rapid antibody tests for HIV are conducted using blood from a finger prick- True or False
7. AIDS and HIV are one and the same - True or False
8. Persons with low CD4 have low viral load - True or False9. Antiretroviral treatment is started
a. To cure HIV/AIDS
b. When CD4 is below 300
c. If person is tested positive for HIV virus
10. The regimen used by NACO to prevent transmission of HIV from a pregnant HIV-positive woman to her unborn child (that is PPTCT) is
a. Single dose of Nevirapine to the baby on the third day
b. Single dose of Nevirapine to the mother at the time of labour and on the third day after delivery
c. Single dose of Nevirapine to the mother at the time of delivery and a single dose of Nevirapine to the infant immediately after birth
11. Provider Initiated Testing means
a. The Health Care Provider (that is doctors and nurses) get tested for HIV every month
b. The Health Care Provider (that is doctors and nurses) refer for testing those patients who show symptoms of HIV/AIDS or who have conditions that might encourage HIV infection (like STIs)
c. The Health Care Provider tests all the patients for HIV
