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<p>In Turkey, cyst hydatid disease (CHD) or cystic echinococcosis (CE) is publicly known as “dog cyst”, a fatal and serious disease not only affects livestock husbandry and human health but also brings about economic loss to our country. According to the data of the Ministry of Health; number of annual cases was 408 in 2008, and this number reached 1,867 by the end of 2019. Cystic echinococcosis is especially taken up during childhood and emerged at an older age. They become exposed to the eggs of the tapeworm after close contact with an infected dog or its contaminated environment. The infected dogs also pass in their feces <italic>E. granulosus</italic> eggs that adhere to the dogs’ hairs, and pass on to the children who are in the course of playful and intimate contact with the infected dogs. This study was to create the awareness of risk factors of CE among 10 different districts of Izmir province. Awareness raising seminars are essential component of this study because local people living in CE endemic areas, are crucial to continue and sustain the long-time effort that is needed to tackle this disease. In each district, 3 awareness raising seminars were held to the target groups: (a) in schools for students, teachers, administrators, (b) for general public, (c) for healthcare professionals. 4090 students attended to the trainings, 242 administrators and teachers who attended to the presentations together with the students, 524 people were attended to the trainings and 327 health workers attended to the trainings from different institutions. This study helped improving this situation by organising educational events for the rural populations for preventing transmission of the disease. This is the first educational intervention study regarding creating awareness on CE in Izmir Province which includes 10 districts between January 2019 to January 2020.</p></abstract>

In Turkey, cyst hydatid disease (CHD) or cystic echinococcosis (CE) is publicly known as “dog cyst”, a fatal and serious disease not only affects livestock husbandry and human health but also brings about economic loss to our country. According to the data of the Ministry of Health; number of annual cases was 408 in 2008, and this number reached 1,867 by the end of 2019. Cystic echinococcosis is especially taken up during childhood and emerged at an older age. They become exposed to the eggs of the tapeworm after close contact with an infected dog or its contaminated environment. The infected dogs also pass in their feces E. granulosus eggs that adhere to the dogs’ hairs, and pass on to the children who are in the course of playful and intimate contact with the infected dogs. This study was to create the awareness of risk factors of CE among 10 different districts of Izmir province. Awareness raising seminars are essential component of this study because local people living in CE endemic areas, are crucial to continue and sustain the long-time effort that is needed to tackle this disease. In each district, 3 awareness raising seminars were held to the target groups: (a) in schools for students, teachers, administrators, (b) for general public, (c) for healthcare professionals. 4090 students attended to the trainings, 242 administrators and teachers who attended to the presentations together with the students, 524 people were attended to the trainings and 327 health workers attended to the trainings from different institutions. This study helped improving this situation by organising educational events for the rural populations for preventing transmission of the disease. This is the first educational intervention study regarding creating awareness on CE in Izmir Province which includes 10 districts between January 2019 to January 2020.

Educational intervention for the awareness improvement and control programme design on Echinococcosis in Izmir, Turkey

Helminthologia

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In Turkey, cyst hydatid disease (CHD) or cystic echinococcosis (CE) is publicly known as “dog cyst”, a fatal and serious disease not only affects livestock...

Attendees to the training seminars	The number of participants (%)
Attendees to the training seminars	Female (%)	Male (%)	Total
NGO Management Course	14 (56%)	11 (44%)	25
Students	2127 (52%)	1963 (48%)	4090
Administrators and teachers	150 (62%)	92 (38%)	242
The people	305 (58.21%)	219 (41.79%)	524
Health care professionals	183 (55.96%)	144 (44.04%)	327

Total	2779 (53.36%)	2429 (46.64%)	5208

Educational intervention for the awareness improvement and control programme design on Echinococcosis in Izmir, Turkey

Data publikacji: 08 cze 2021

Zakres stron: 152 - 161

Otrzymano: 19 lis 2020

Przyjęty: 22 lut 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2021-0013

Słowa kluczowe
Cystic echinococcosis, cyst hydatid disease, creating awareness, prevention

© 2021 NA. Altintas, NU. Altintas, O. Sarica Yilmaz, M. Akil, E. Akdur Ozturk, A. Unver, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Distribution of the number of participants attending training seminars by gender.

Educational intervention for the awareness improvement and control programme design on Echinococcosis in Izmir, Turkey

Data publikacji: 08 cze 2021

Zakres stron: 152 - 161

Otrzymano: 19 lis 2020

Przyjęty: 22 lut 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2021-0013

Słowa kluczoweCystic echinococcosis, cyst hydatid disease, creating awareness, prevention

© 2021 NA. Altintas, NU. Altintas, O. Sarica Yilmaz, M. Akil, E. Akdur Ozturk, A. Unver, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Fig. 1

Fig. 2 A

Fig. 2 B

Fig. 3

Fig. 4 A

Fig. 4 B

Distribution of the number of participants attending training seminars by gender.

Słowa kluczowe
Cystic echinococcosis, cyst hydatid disease, creating awareness, prevention