The Healthcare Professionals and the Leishmaniasis

Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knowledge on Leishmaniasis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01896362

CentroPRR-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this work was to investigate the healthcare professionals' knowledge about leishmaniasis in Divinópolis, an endemic county of Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

Enrollment: 228 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• work in the healthcare centers, in the case of primary care professionals;
• have a university degree for nurses, physicians, dentists and veterinarians;
• be working effectively at the time of the interview;
• accept the terms of the research through written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria