dc.contributor.author | Wohlgemut, J | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Dewey, C | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Levy, M | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Mutua, F | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-17T11:31:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/85792 | |
dc.description.abstract | Taenia solium neurocysticercosis is a major cause of adult-onset epilepsy in developing countries. A questionnaire was administered to 282 Kenyan farmers, followed by a workshop, a second questionnaire, one-on-one training, and a third questionnaire. People who attended workshops were more likely to know how T. solium causes epilepsy in humans in the third visit than the second (P = 0.001). The likelihood that farmers would tether their pigs 100% of the time, limiting exposure to tapeworm eggs, increased after the first (P < 0.001) and second visits (P < 0.001). Farmers were more likely to have heard of Cysticercus cellulosae in the second (P = 0.001) and third visits (P = 0.007), and to know how pigs acquire infection in the second (P = 0.03) and third visits (P = 0.003). Farmers with at least a grade 8 education were more likely to know how T. solium is transmitted to humans in the second (P = 0.001) and third visits (P = 0.009), and were more likely to understand the relationship between epilepsy and T. solium in the second (P = 0.03) and third visits (P = 0.03). Grade 8 education may enhance learning from written material. Workshops followed by individual on-farm training enhanced knowledge acquisition and behavior changes. Training local government extension workers contributed to the sustainability of this project. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 634 - 642 | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Am J Trop Med Hyg | en_US |
dc.subject | Animal Husbandry | en_US |
dc.subject | Animals | en_US |
dc.subject | Cooking | en_US |
dc.subject | Epilepsy | en_US |
dc.subject | Food Parasitology | en_US |
dc.subject | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | en_US |
dc.subject | Humans | en_US |
dc.subject | Kenya | en_US |
dc.subject | Meat | en_US |
dc.subject | Neurocysticercosis | en_US |
dc.subject | Swine | en_US |
dc.subject | Taenia solium | en_US |
dc.title | Evaluating the efficacy of teaching methods regarding prevention of human epilepsy caused by Taenia solium neurocysticercosis in Western Kenya. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0404 | en_US |
pubs.author-url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20348512 | en_US |
pubs.issue | 4 | en_US |
pubs.notes | Not known | en_US |
pubs.publication-status | Published | en_US |
pubs.volume | 82 | en_US |