TITLE:
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B in the Urban District Health Baskuy Burkina Faso
AUTHORS:
Alice Nanelin Guingané, Nicolas Meda, Roger Sombié, Christiane Béré/Somé, Lydie Sia, Rose Ido/Da, Issa Guiraud, Alain Bougouma
KEYWORDS:
Hepatitis B, Paramedics, Knowledge, Practices, Pregnant Women, Immunization, Newborn
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Gastroenterology,
Vol.6 No.6,
June
9,
2016
ABSTRACT: Few studies have been conducted on the epidemiology in pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to improve the care of pregnant women infected with hepatitis B virus (VHB) and their newborns in the urban district health. Method: This study was conducted from 01/09/2014 to 01/09/2015. Study involved three types of data collection: a collection of data from health facilities involved in the project; repeated cross-sectional survey among health personnel; a pros- pective study of pregnant women identified positive for HBsAg and followed at the University Hospital Yalgado Ouédraogo (CHU-YO). Knowledge assessment was made among health staff and pregnant women using a knowledge score. Construction of the score came after a factorial analysis of multiple correspondences on population health workers surveyed in the first round (N = 119) on one hand and all pregnant women (N = 266) on the other hand. This had identified among the 79/19 questions, those that discriminated best knowledge of paramedics and pregnant women. For pregnant women, this score was then dichotomized from the center and logistic regression was performed to determine the sociodemographic, medical and obstetric characteristics that influenced it (p value