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Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia

Leptospirosis has been reported as an endemic in most tropical countries. Among high risk occupations, leptospirosis includes workers in agriculture and domestic animal industries. Environmental hygiene in the wet market has established a link between the presence of rodents with probability of lept...

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Main Authors:	Samsudin, Suhailah, Saudi, Siti Nor Sakinah, Masri, Siti Norbaya, Ithnin, Nur Raihana, Tengku Jamaluddin, Tengku Zetty Maztura, Awang Hamat, Rukman, Wan Mohammad, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin, Shafei, Mohd Nazri, Sukeri, Surianti, Daud, Aziah, Abdullah, Nurul Munirah, Nozmi, Noramira, Osman, Malina
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spelling	my.upm.eprints.381402020-05-03T22:56:52Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38140/ Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia Samsudin, Suhailah Saudi, Siti Nor Sakinah Masri, Siti Norbaya Ithnin, Nur Raihana Tengku Jamaluddin, Tengku Zetty Maztura Awang Hamat, Rukman Wan Mohammad, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Shafei, Mohd Nazri Sukeri, Surianti Daud, Aziah Abdullah, Nurul Munirah Nozmi, Noramira Osman, Malina Leptospirosis has been reported as an endemic in most tropical countries. Among high risk occupations, leptospirosis includes workers in agriculture and domestic animal industries. Environmental hygiene in the wet market has established a link between the presence of rodents with probability of leptospirosis infection. This study was aimed to compare the level of knowledge, attitude and preventive practice against leptospirosis between healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected wet markets in urban areas of Selangor. A cross-sectional study in the determined area was conducted with the participation of 147 respondents. The respondents were randomly chosen from the list provided by the state agency that regulates these markets. A self-administered bilingual validated questionnaire (English and Bahasa Melayu) was distributed to the selected respondents. There were 68 (48.3%) Malaysian respondents and 79 (53.7%) non-Malaysian respondents. The majority of them were males, who attained formal education and were less than 40 years old. Meanwhile, the respondents earned less than RM3000. Among the Malaysian respondents, 80.9% were aware of leptospirosis as compared to 17.7% of the non-Malaysian colleagues (p < 0.05). All items of knowledge showed that the Malaysian respondents scored higher as compared to non-Malaysian respondents. On attitude towards infection prevention, most Malaysian respondents had a positive attitude, while most non-Malaysian respondents had undecided perception on the majority of crucial attitude items. In practicing preventive measures, there was a marked significant difference in proportion between Malaysian and non-Malaysian respondents for items on “Specific Protection and Isolation at Source.” There was a significant gap on knowledge, attitude and preventive practice among Malaysian workers as compared to non-Malaysian workers. Therefore, it was highly recommended the health promotion implementation should also provide specific focus on non-Malaysian workers. MDPI 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38140/1/38140.pdf Samsudin, Suhailah and Saudi, Siti Nor Sakinah and Masri, Siti Norbaya and Ithnin, Nur Raihana and Tengku Jamaluddin, Tengku Zetty Maztura and Awang Hamat, Rukman and Wan Mohammad, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin and Shafei, Mohd Nazri and Sukeri, Surianti and Daud, Aziah and Abdullah, Nurul Munirah and Nozmi, Noramira and Osman, Malina (2020) Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (4). art. no. 1346. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1661-7827; ESSN: 1660-4601 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/4/1346 10.3390/ijerph17041346
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description	Leptospirosis has been reported as an endemic in most tropical countries. Among high risk occupations, leptospirosis includes workers in agriculture and domestic animal industries. Environmental hygiene in the wet market has established a link between the presence of rodents with probability of leptospirosis infection. This study was aimed to compare the level of knowledge, attitude and preventive practice against leptospirosis between healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected wet markets in urban areas of Selangor. A cross-sectional study in the determined area was conducted with the participation of 147 respondents. The respondents were randomly chosen from the list provided by the state agency that regulates these markets. A self-administered bilingual validated questionnaire (English and Bahasa Melayu) was distributed to the selected respondents. There were 68 (48.3%) Malaysian respondents and 79 (53.7%) non-Malaysian respondents. The majority of them were males, who attained formal education and were less than 40 years old. Meanwhile, the respondents earned less than RM3000. Among the Malaysian respondents, 80.9% were aware of leptospirosis as compared to 17.7% of the non-Malaysian colleagues (p < 0.05). All items of knowledge showed that the Malaysian respondents scored higher as compared to non-Malaysian respondents. On attitude towards infection prevention, most Malaysian respondents had a positive attitude, while most non-Malaysian respondents had undecided perception on the majority of crucial attitude items. In practicing preventive measures, there was a marked significant difference in proportion between Malaysian and non-Malaysian respondents for items on “Specific Protection and Isolation at Source.” There was a significant gap on knowledge, attitude and preventive practice among Malaysian workers as compared to non-Malaysian workers. Therefore, it was highly recommended the health promotion implementation should also provide specific focus on non-Malaysian workers.
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author	Samsudin, Suhailah Saudi, Siti Nor Sakinah Masri, Siti Norbaya Ithnin, Nur Raihana Tengku Jamaluddin, Tengku Zetty Maztura Awang Hamat, Rukman Wan Mohammad, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Shafei, Mohd Nazri Sukeri, Surianti Daud, Aziah Abdullah, Nurul Munirah Nozmi, Noramira Osman, Malina
spellingShingle	Samsudin, Suhailah Saudi, Siti Nor Sakinah Masri, Siti Norbaya Ithnin, Nur Raihana Tengku Jamaluddin, Tengku Zetty Maztura Awang Hamat, Rukman Wan Mohammad, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Shafei, Mohd Nazri Sukeri, Surianti Daud, Aziah Abdullah, Nurul Munirah Nozmi, Noramira Osman, Malina Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia
author_facet	Samsudin, Suhailah Saudi, Siti Nor Sakinah Masri, Siti Norbaya Ithnin, Nur Raihana Tengku Jamaluddin, Tengku Zetty Maztura Awang Hamat, Rukman Wan Mohammad, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Shafei, Mohd Nazri Sukeri, Surianti Daud, Aziah Abdullah, Nurul Munirah Nozmi, Noramira Osman, Malina
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title	Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia
title_short	Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia
title_full	Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia
title_sort	awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy malaysian and non-malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in selangor, malaysia
publisher	MDPI
publishDate	2020
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38140/1/38140.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38140/ https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/4/1346
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Awareness, knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of leptospirosis among healthy Malaysian and non-Malaysian wet market workers in selected urban areas in Selangor, Malaysia

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