Taiwan is high prevalence area in viral hepatitis. The prevalence rate is 17.3% in HBV but 4.4% in HCV.
Taiwan government has started HBV vaccine policy since 1984. They hope to terminate the vertical infection and get good effectiveness. Now, HCV prevention is a important program for Taiwan.
This survey wants to understand the donors¡¦ knowledge about HBV and HCV who live in Kaohsiung and Pingtung area.
There are 321 available questionnaires. Male are 117(50.6%) and female are 114(49.4%). The result shows that cognition about HBV is better than HCV. The question ¡V ¡§HBV could be infected if dinner with someone who is HBV carrier.¡¨ is given false almost 47.2% but 47.6% in HCV. The donors who believe it will be infected HBV by donate blood are over 50% and same as HCV.
The results show that donors have some mistake concept in transmission path, particularly in the safety about donate blood.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0809107-080538 |
| Date | 09 August 2007 |
| Creators | Lin, Kuan-tsou |
| Contributors | Chin-Kang Jen, I-Heng Chen, Jen-Jsung Huang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0809107-080538 |
| Rights | restricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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