How Much Do Health Professionals Know About Dengue?

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Keywords:

Dengue, alarm signs, severe dengue, training.

Abstract

Introduction: The region of the Americas has experienced dengue outbreaks in various countries. Knowledge of the disease, warning signs and severity criteria is a priority.

Objective: To determine the knowledge that health professionals have about the main characteristics of dengue disease.

Methods: A survey was conducted among participants of the Symposium on Infectious Diseases in Children and Adolescents at Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, which consisted of ten questions about dengue. The group was made up of pediatricians, epidemiologists and some microbiologists. Results: 72% of those surveyed (32 participants) got a rating of excellent or very good for having given satisfactory answers to all or to nine of the questions. 21% of the participants answered eight of them and only two professionals responded correctly to seven or less.

Conclusions: Against dengue, medicine currently uses diagnosis and indication of appropriate treatment as its weapon. This requires that the medical and paramedical community in places where there is transmission of the virus be properly trained, both in the course of the disease and in its early diagnosis and treatment.

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Author Biography

Eric Martínez Torres, Instituto de Medicina Tropical ''Pedro Kourí''.

Doctor en Ciencias.Doctor en Ciencias Médicas.Especialista 2º grado en Pediatría, Profesor Consultante, Investigador Titular y de Mérito.

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Published

2024-07-23

How to Cite

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Martínez Torres E, Castro Peraza M, Tápanes Fernández T, Chao Sautié MI, Medina Asencio D. How Much Do Health Professionals Know About Dengue?. Rev Cubana Pediatría [Internet]. 2024 Jul. 23 [cited 2025 Jun. 29];96. Available from: https://revpediatria.sld.cu/index.php/ped/article/view/5142