Study of KAP of the private medical practitioners about national disease control programmes.
This study was carried out among the Private Allopathic Medical Practitioners (PMPs) at Khardah Municipal area (West Bengal) to find out their perception & practice about management protocol of diseases like acute respiratory infections and diarrhoel diseases in children, malaria and tuberculosis. Data was collected by interviewing the PMPs with pre-designed open-ended questionnaire. It was supplemented by analysing sample prescriptions of the same diseases. The study revealed that PMPs knowledge and practice were not at par with national guidelines. The need for periodic sensitization of PMPs regarding national disease control programme was emphasized.
Dept. of PSM, MGM Medical College, Kishanganj, Bihar.
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D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D010820:Physicians; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D017149:Private Sector