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Table 5 Frontline service providers’ knowledge about the clinical and public health aspects of rabies PEP

From: Management of dog bites by frontline service providers in primary healthcare facilities in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, 2014–2015

Variable

Frequency (%)

Years of practice

  > 1

94 (40.5)

 2–5

94 (40.5)

 6–9

19 (8.2)

  ≥ 10

25 (10.8)

Availability of rabies vaccines at facility based on providers’ responses

 Available

54 (23.3)

 Not available

178 (76.7)

Knowledge of where to get vaccine

 Yes

129 (55.8)

 No

102 (44.2)

Incubation period of rabies

 One day

4 (1.7)

 6 days

23 (9.9)

 One week

39 (16.8)

 3–8 weeks

103 (44.4)

 Don’t know

63 (27.2)

Rabies prevention

 Vaccination

229 (98.7)

 Prayers

0 (0.0)

 Kill all animals

0 (0.0)

 Other

0 (0.0)

 Don’t know

3 (1.3)

Dose of RIG determined by…

 BMI

1 (0.8)

 Weight

29 (21.6)

 Body surface area

69 (51.5)

 Don’t know

35 (26.1)

Site for RIG administration

 Infiltrated around the wound

48 (20.7)

 Intravenous

7 (3.0)

 All dosed into deltoid muscle

108 (46.6)

 Don’t know

69 (29.7)

Site for rabies vaccine

 Deltoid

134 (57.8)

 Abdomen

25 (10.8)

 Buttocks

22 (9.5)

 Don’t know

51 (21.9)

Route of rabies vaccination

 Intramuscular

115 (49.6)

 Intradermal

43 (18.5)

 Intramuscular/intradermal

32 (13.8)

 Intravenous

1 (0.4)

 Don’t know

41 (17.7)