Hepatitis B prevalence, risk factors, infection awareness and disease knowledge among inmates: a cross-sectional study in Switzerland's largest pre-trial prison

Getaz, Laurent; Casillas, Alejandra; Siegrist, Claire-Anne; Chappuis, François; Togni, Giuseppe; Tran, Nguyen Toan; Baggio, Stéphanie; Negro, Francesco; Gaspoz, Jean-Michel; Wolff, Hans

doi:10.7189/jogh-08-020407

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Hepatitis B prevalence, risk factors, infection awareness and disease knowledge among inmates: a cross-sectional study in Switzerland's largest pre-trial prison

ContributorsGetaz, Laurent; Casillas, Alejandra; Siegrist, Claire-Anne; Chappuis, François; Togni, Giuseppe; Tran, Nguyen Toan; Baggio, Stéphanie

; Negro, Francesco; Gaspoz, Jean-Michel; Wolff, Hans

Published inJournal of Global Health, vol. 8, no. 2, 020407

Publication date2018

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major health concern in prison, but data are scarce in European prisons. This study aims to measure the prevalence of HBV infection, risk factors, awareness about infection, and HBV knowledge among inmates in Switzerland's largest pre-trial prison.

Keywords

Adult
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health Knowledge
Attitudes
Practice
Hepatitis B/epidemiology
Humans
Male
Prevalence
Prisoners/psychology/statistics & numerical data
Risk Factors
Switzerland/epidemiology
Young Adult

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Funding

Autre - Federal Office of Public Health (grant number 09.003678)
Autre - Medical Direction of the Geneva University Hospitals

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GETAZ, Laurent et al. Hepatitis B prevalence, risk factors, infection awareness and disease knowledge among inmates: a cross-sectional study in Switzerland’s largest pre-trial prison. In: Journal of Global Health, 2018, vol. 8, n° 2, p. 020407. doi: 10.7189/jogh-08-020407

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PID : unige:121808
DOI : 10.7189/jogh-08-020407
PMID : 30140433

Commercial URLhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076584/

ISSN of the journal2047-2978

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Hepatitis B prevalence, risk factors, infection awareness and disease knowledge among inmates: a cross-sectional study in Switzerland's largest pre-trial prison

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major health concern in prison, but data are scarce in European prisons. This study aims to measure the prevalence of HBV infection, risk factors, awareness about infection, and HBV knowledge among inmates in Switzerland's largest pre-trial prison.

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