Data and facts about rabies education efforts.
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CARE Project in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
External link:
Amparo ACB, Mendoza ECB, Licuan DA, Valenzuela LM, Madalipay JD, Jayme SI and Taylor LH (2019) Impact of Integrating Rabies Education Into the Curriculum of Public Elementary Schools in Ilocos Norte, Philippines on Rabies Knowledge, and Animal Bite Incidence. Front. Public Health 7:119. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00119
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00119
Students’ Knowledge Assessment And Bite Incidents
| Pre-education test | Post-education test | |
|---|---|---|
| Awareness about rabies | 92.3% | 96.1% |
| Sources of information | ||
| Teachers | 81.9% | 92.8% |
| Television | 48.6% | 75.2% |
| Radio | 19% | 52% |
| Family members | 25.8% | 44.2% |
| Children with perfect score in knowledge area | ||
| Responsible pet ownership | 62.4% | 82.7% |
| Bite prevention | 74.5% | 84.5% |
| Bite management | 73.6% | 86.6% |
| Rabies disease & prevention | 44.2% | 38.8% |
| Mean score on test | 7.54 | 8.25 |
| Student reporting bite | 14.9% | 4.8% |
| Students sought medical treatment at a hospital or bite clinic | 66.6% | 56.2% |
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Rabies Education 4 Kids Campaign in Rural Sri Lanka
External link:
Koji Kanda, Yoshi Obayashi, Ananda Jayasinghe, G.S.P. de S. Gunawardena, N.Y. Delpitiya, N.G.W. Priyadarshani, Chandika D. Gamage, Asuna Arai, Hiko Tamashiro, Outcomes of a school-based intervention on rabies prevention among school children in rural Sri Lanka, International Health, Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2015, Pages 348–353,
https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihu098
Rabies KAP Before and After Campaign
| Study Group (n=73) | Control Group (n=52) | |||
| Before (%) | After (%) | Before (%) | After (%) | |
| If a person or animal gets rabies, they will almost always die: true | 49 | 67 | 54 | 58 |
| How do you get rabies? bite from an infected animal | 47 | 67 | 58 | 52 |
| The first thing to do after scratched by an animal: tell an adult | 16 | 62 | 15 | 10 |
| Rabies is caused by a virus: true | 29 | 70 | 35 | 35 |
| A snake bite can give you rabies: false | 44 | 69 | 33 | 52 |
| If you were scratched by an animal, you should clean the wound right away: true | 60 | 74 | 64 | 75 |
| You will always know if you are bitten by a bat, even if you are asleep: false | 27 | 40 | 27 | 37 |
| How can you best protect dogs against rabies? vaccination | 26 | 62 | 33 | 50 |
| Which of these animals can carry rabies? | ||||
| Dogs | 77 | 85 | 71 | 79 |
| Cats | 53 | 88 | 65 | 69 |
| Bats | 27 | 85 | 42 | 69 |
| Rabbits | 15 | 81 | 31 | 52 |
| Snake (false) | 44 | 74.0 | 52 | 54 |
| Average correct response | 39.6 | 70.9 | 44.5 | 53.1 |