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A Cross Sectional Study on Knowledge about HBV Vaccination among the Medical Students of a Tertiary Medical College and Organizations Involved In Vaccination and Awareness

Md Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury

Objectives: The study was done to know about the knowledge about Hepatitis B infection and develop awareness among the students to receive vaccine.

Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among the medical students of northern Bangladesh in January, 2020 using a pretested self administrated structured questionnaire. Chi-square (X²) test was used to compare between different variables to identify significance level.

Results: Total 253 medical students from a tertiary thousands bed medical college under MBBS and BDS curriculum, among them 50.99% was male and 40.01% was female and 47.82% was from town and 52.17% was from village. From all participants 57.31% was vaccinated with full dose completed, 26.29% did not complete dose (Booster dose) and 13.44% never received vaccine, from the unvaccinated persons 16.33% did not know about the organizations from where vaccine is received and who knew about the organization form where vaccine can take, more than 90% mentioned the name of shandhani (A free blood donating and vaccination organizations). Along with HBV vaccination 53.78% could mention that they also completed EPI schedule, 20.32% could not remember and 23.9% did not complete EPI. Before taking vaccine 64.94% was go through screening procedure and 15.54% did not know about screening.

Conclusion: From our study we can say that we need more awareness for taking vaccine and government should include HBV in EPI schedule. And also need to organize awareness program or campaign among the community people and students of all sectors to increase knowledge.