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Abstract
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease affecting primarily the
liver. Typically acute hepatitis C develops after exposure
to hepatitis C infected blood associated with intravenous drug
use, poorly sterilized medical equipment and transfusions. The
cause of transmission remains unknown in 20% of cases. In 67-
85% of infected individuals, acute hepatitis infection persists
beyond six months and becomes chronic. chronic hepatitis C
infection can then lead to liver fibrosis that can progress to
cirrhosis, decompensate cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma
HCC. Spontaneous resolution of CHC infection appears to
occur rarely (Ryan et al., 2004).
Research Design:
Descriptive analytic design was used
Technical Design:
The technical design for the study was included setting
of the study subject and tools for data collection.
Research Setting:
The study was conducted at gastro-intestinal outpatient
clinic of Police Hospital- Aguza.Subjects:
A simple random sample comprised 1000 patients’
divided to 5 lists was used in this study. Attendant listed and
every 5th patients having the following inclusion criteria was
selected. According attending previously mentioned clinic
records of year 2015 patients classified into three groups
manly:
chronic hepatitis C patients.
Hepatitis C with compensated liver cirrhosis patients.
Hepatitis C with liver cell failure.
Tools of data collection:
Two tools were used to data collection:
First tool:
Interview questionnaire was designed by investigator
after reading related literature and taking expert’s opinions .It
was written in Arabic Language and divided into four parts.
Part (I): It concerned with Socio-Demographic characteristics
of patients such as age, gender, marital status, education level
Part (II): patients level of knowledge about the hepatitis C
virus, It was developed by literatures reading, as definition,incubation period, communicability period, mode of
transmission, clinical manifestations, complication, medical
management.
Correct answer =1 score
Incorrect answer =0
Then divided total score for each patient to
(Poor) 0 > 50%
(Average) 50% > 75%
(Good) 75% > 100%
Part (III): To assess the patients practice toward disease
transmission and protective measures.
Correct answer =1 score
Incorrect answer =0
Then divided total score for each patient to
(Non satisfactory) 0 > 60 %
(Satisfactory) 60% > 100%
Part (IV): daily living activities of patients with hepatitis C
virus using the daily living activity scale which composed of
the following activities physical, social, and sexual.Physical activity: it was included, Physical health, personal
hygiene, nutrition, exercise, grooming, clothing, and
physical appearance.
- Social activity: it was included, links with social
environments and included the visits with others, family,
friends, co-workers, neighborhoods and the community
- Sexual activity: It was included, client sexual activities.
Second tool:
Auditing sheet review of medical record to assess past
and present patient’s history as regards health problems.
The finding of present study could be summarized as
follows:
Concerning patient’s knowledge regarding HCV, the
result of the current study indicated that half of patient had
average knowledge regarding HCV. Also, the majority of the
sample achieved satisfactory score of life style practices and
protection of others from spread of HCV. And as regards total
patients daily living activities found, that majority of them had
effect on their daily living activities while, less than one quarter
of them hadn’t effect on physical and social activities. There
were a highly statistical significant relation between the studied
sample age, occupations and their knowledge about HCV; also,
there were a statistical significant relation between their type of
work and their knowledge about HCV, while there were astatistical insignificant relation between their gender, marital
Status and their knowledge about HCV. There were a statistical
significant relation between the studied sample age, marital
Status, type of their work and their practices toward HCV
while, there were a statistical insignificant relation between
their gender, level of education and their practices toward
HCV. There were a highly statistical significant relation
between the studied sample knowledge about HCV and their
practices toward HCV.