Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Florida physicians regarding dengue before and after an educational intervention

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• Alternative Title:
  BMC Med Educ
• Personal Author:
  Doblecki-Lewis, Susanne ; Chang, Aileen ; Jiddou-Yaldoo, Renee ; Tomashek, Kay M. ; Stanek, Danielle ; Anil, Leena ; Lichtenberger, Paola
• Description:
  Background
  
  Failure to recognize and appropriately manage dengue early in the clinical course may result in late initiation of supportive treatment for severe disease. In Florida, travel-related and autochthonous dengue occur and are likely under-recognized. The objective of this study was to evaluate physician knowledge of dengue and its management before and after an educational intervention in Florida.
  
  Methods
  
  From 2012–13 we conducted 14 grand-rounds style lectures on dengue clinical management attended by 413 physicians, and analyzed data from the pre- and post-tests.
  
  Results
  
  Of those attending, 231 and 220 completed the pre-and post-tests, respectively. Overall, the mean pre-test score for knowledge-based questions was 74.3 and average post-test score was 94.2 %, indicating a mean increase of 19.9 % (P < 0.0001, 95 % CI 17.7–22.4). Reported confidence in dengue recognition and management also increased. Non-US trained physicians and those who had treated more than ten dengue cases performed significantly better in the pre-test. Post-test scores did not differ by subgroup.
  
  Conclusions
  
  The train-the-trainer approach with grand-rounds style presentations appear to be an effective intervention to improve knowledge of dengue among physicians.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Clinical Competence Controlled Before-After Studies Dengue Education, Medical, Continuing Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Teacher Training Teaching Rounds
• Source:
  BMC Med Educ. 16.
• Pubmed ID:
  27112138
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4845440
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Florida
• Volume:
  16
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4d980b57b6b510fa9fc8934b6eacaa246a07d151b4356f816f196003459d8e05
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/39213/cdc_39213_DS1.pdf
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