Background: Improper nutritional knowledge is one of the most important causes of nutritional problems, which can affect practice and cause more complications. The aim of this study was to assess the association between nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of Iranian households with socioeconomic status (SES). Methods: The study population was 14,136 households (57 clusters of 8 i...

1Department of Internal Medicine; 2Department of Family and Community Medicine; 3Department of Urology, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Received: 06/05/03; accepted: 19/11/03 ABSTRACT We aimed to test the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of physicians towards erectile dysfunction in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. At a scientific meeting about erec...

Abstract As a best practice for sustainable construction, Construction Waste Prevention (CWP) is poorly practiced, and may be largely associated with the knowledge, attitude, behaviour of construction practitioners. With focus on Knowledge, Attitude, Practice (KAP) CWP, this study was purposed to provide an in-depth analysis implementation CWP within industry, using meta-synthesis purposively s...

background: physicians and medical students are at risk of exposure to a broad range of viral pathogens through percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane with blood, and other potentially infectious body fluids. the objective of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice (kap) of physicians and medical students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences, iran, rega...

A total of three hundred mothers in both rural and urban areas were interviewed and their knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) on acute respiratory infections (ARI) were compared. It was observed that KAP on ARI of mothers in both categories was almost the same with the exception of their health care seeking practice. Most had traditional beliefs as to the cause of ARI with only a minority kn...

Background The GAP between the knowledge of contraception and its actual practice is well recognized in the literature of family welfare studies. The present study assessed the relation between the level of knowledge and practice of contraception among the women and sought to explore the reasons behind the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice - GAP (KAP GAP) regarding contraceptive users in six ci...

This article presents the results of the study on knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) on dengue in an urban community in Northeast of Brazil, and the risk situations involved in its transmission. The study was observational and used a semi-structured survey composed of questions about the disease and vector control measures, which was answered by residents of selected households (IC 95%) of ...

Background: Diabetes education, with improvement in knowledge, attitudes and skills, leads to better control of the disease The objectives of the study were to assess knowledge, attitude, practice and compliance of rural diabetic patients, and to identify the predictors of good knowledge and patient's compliance and to determine the impact of diabetes on patients' daily work. Method: This was a...