Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Hygiene and the Prevention of Trachoma in the Indigenous Population of the Colombian Amazon Vaupés Department

Fecha de publicación: 01/01/2023 Fecha Ahead of Print: 06/03/2023

Autores organización

Alexandra Porras Ramirez

Autor

Autores

Trujillo-Trujillo J
Meza-Cárdenas M
Sánchez SB
Zamora SM
López de Mesa CB
Bernal Parra LM
Bernal Lizarazú MC
Miller H
Silva JC

Grupos de investigación

Grupo de Inmunología celular y molecular Universidad El Bosque (InmuBo)

Investigador

Maria Consuelo Romero Sanchez

Resumen

The Colombian program to end trachoma implements the component F of the SAFE strategy in the Vaupés department of the Amazon rainforest. Cultural, linguistic, and geographical barriers and the coexistence of an ancestral medical system demand the technical and sociocultural adaptation of this component. A cross-sectional survey combined with focus-group discussions to understand the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the indigenous population related to trachoma was conducted in 2015. Of the 357 heads of households that participated, 45.1% associated trachoma with a lack of hygiene, and 94.7% associated the concept of hygiene with taking one or more body baths per day, using commercial or handcrafted soap. In total, 93% reported cleaning their children’s faces and eyes more often when they have conjunctivitis, but 66.1% also did this with clothes or towels in use, and 52.7% of people shared towels; in total, 32.8% indicated that they would use ancestral medicine to prevent and treat trachoma. The SAFE strategy in Vaupés requires an intercultural approach to facilitate stakeholder support and participation to promote general and facial hygiene, washing clothes with soap, and not sharing towels and clothes to dry and clean children’s faces for effective and sustainable elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. This qualitative assessment facilitated an intercultural approach locally and in other Amazonian locations. © 2023 by the authors.

Datos de la publicación

ISSN/ISSNe:: 1661-7827, 1660-4601
Tipo:: Article
Páginas:: -
DOI:: 10.3390/ijerph20054632
Enlace a otro recurso:: www.scopus.com

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Filiaciones

Trujillo-Trujillo J:: Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Bogotá, 110311, Colombia

Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud—ECISA, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD, Bogotá, 111511, Colombia
Meza-Cárdenas M:: Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Bogotá, 110311, Colombia

Universidad. Grupo de Medicina Comunitaria y Salud Colectiva, Maestría en Epidemiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, 110111, Colombia

Bogotá, 110111, Colombia
Sánchez SB:: Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Bogotá, 110311, Colombia
Zamora SM:: Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Bogotá, 110311, Colombia
Porras A:: Universidad. Grupo de Medicina Comunitaria y Salud Colectiva, Maestría en Epidemiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, 110111, Colombia

Bogotá, 110111, Colombia
López de Mesa CB:: Escuela Superior de Oftalmología, Instituto Barraquer de América, Bogotá, 110321, Colombia
Bernal Parra LM:: Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud—ECISA, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD, Bogotá, 111511, Colombia
Bernal Lizarazú MC:: Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud—ECISA, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD, Bogotá, 111511, Colombia
Miller H:: Department of Vaupés, Secretariate of Health, Mitú, 970001, Colombia
Silva JC:: Bogotá, 110111, Colombia

Keywords

Child; Colombia; Cross-Sectional Studies; Face; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Hygiene; Indigenous Peoples; Soaps; Trachoma; Amazonia; Colombia; Vaupes; soap; attitudinal survey; eye disease; hygiene; indigenous population; knowledge; public health; adult; Article; attitude to health; cleaning; Colombian; community participation; conjunctivitis; cross-sectional study; disease elimination; disease transmission; eye protection; female; health care practice; health care survey; health program; human; hygiene; indigenous people; infection prevention; information processing; male; qualitative analysis; rain forest; stakeholder engagement; trachoma; traditional medicine; attitude to health; child; Colombia; face; hygiene; trachoma