Knowledge, attitude and practices towards risk factors of pulmonary tuberculosis among mine workers at Nathenje, Lilongwe
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2020-10-08
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Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Abstract
Pulmonary tuberculosis continues to be one of the health problem issue among mine workers
worldwide. However, there is limited data on the knowledge, attitudes and practices on pulmonary
tuberculosis among mine workers both here in Malawi and other sub-Saharan African countries.
This could also be one of the contributing factors to the vast increase in PTB cases worldwide.
This quantitative cross-sectional study has been designed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and
practices towards pulmonary tuberculosis among quarry mine workers at Nathenje, Lilongwe,
Malawi. The study will put much focus on assessing knowledge about PTB among quarry mine
workers, exploring their attitude towards the use of protective measures against PTB and
identifying measures put in place to prevent PTB among mine workers.
The study will target quarry mine workers in Malawi and the study population will be the quarry
mine workers at Nathenje aged 18 to 60 years. Convenience sampling method will be used in this
study. The study will be conducted at Nathenje legal quarry mining sites in Lilongwe. Data will
be collected from the quarry miners through self-administered questionnaires which will be printed
both in Chichewa and English for the participants to choose based on their language preference. It
is expected that our results will give a picture of the level of knowledge quarry miners have on
pulmonary tuberculosis, their attitude towards the disease and practices towards the preventive
measures put in place by their management. Results will be presented at the College of Medicine
MBBS 4 research seminar, a copy will be sent to COMREC as well as to the College of Medicine
library.
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