Assessment Patient s’ Knowledge regarding Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever in outpatient Clinic at El-Minya Fever Hospital

ABSTRACT
Background: Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers is an acute infectious disease with similar clinical features and characterizes by lesion of payer’s patches, bacteremia, severe intoxication, enlarged liver and spleen. Aim: This study aimed to assess patients’ knowledge regarding typhoid and paratyphoid fever in outpatient clinic at El-Minya fever hospital. Study design: Descriptive research design was used in this study. Sample: purposive sample includes 123 patients diagnosed with typhoid and paratyphoid. Setting: Outpatient clinics in El-minya fever hospital. Tools for data collection: one tools used composed of three parts, 1st part: interviewing questionnaire include socio-demographic characteristic, 2nd part: past and present history of typhoid and paratyphoid, 3rd part: patient's knowledge about typhoid and paratyphoid fever. Results: revealed that 60.2% of the studied subjects were male while, 39.8% of them were female. 74.0% of them lived in rural residence and 61.0% of them from 3 to 5 rooms at their homes. 65.9 % of them suffered from fever. Conclusion: The current study concludes that the most of studied sample had unsatisfactory level of knowledge about typhoid and paratyphoid fever disease, the majority of them had low level of quality of life at environmental, physical and psychological status. Recommendations: continues health educational programs to all patients in hospitals that would help them to improve their quality of life and general health condition.