Study of effect of trainings on knowledge, perceptions and practices on vector borne diseases management among staff of health training center′s in India

Abstract

Background: In vector-borne diseases (VBDs) management; the effect of refresher trainings given to the staff of health training centers of the budding private medical colleges in India, has not been explored so far in Indian context and hence it becomes necessary to understand this area due to its future implications. Materials and Methods: A prospective training evaluation based study was carried out (on refresher training imparted of 6 days in every quarter) on the whole health training center's staff from July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2014 of two health training center's (rural and urban) attached to the private medical college in district Muzaffarnagar of India. Training responses in both pretraining and posttraining categories on knowledge, perceptions and practices were scaled, and these responses were tested for any significance by Chi-square test. Results: The basic qualifications and work experiences of health training center's staff were not sufficient enough to practice VBDs management in their area. The differences in training scores on knowledge, perceptions and practices among both training center's staff existed (e.g. lab-technician- χ 2 = 0.32 and 0.14, pharmacist- χ 2 = 0.11, 0.32 and 0.75), but they were not significant in any category of staff ( P > 0.05). Conclusions: Better qualified paramedical staff of health training centers in private medical colleges of India needs to be appointed and their refresher trainings also needs to be of high quality; in order to have their role in proper VBDs management practices in their area, so further research in this field is suggested in future, in order to get a better picture.