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Item Knowledge, attitude and practice towards hepatitis B among the residents in Dhaandhoo island, Maldives(Faculty of Health Sciences, 2015-10-01) Kamal, RaoofBackground: Hepatitis B is an infectious disease which is injurious for Human liver. In Maldives twenty leading causes of death from all ages in 2014 Health Report stated that, 17th leading cause was diseases of liver, of which 10 male and 5 females were dead. 2006-2014 statistics of G.A Dhandhoo Health Center states that, out of 67 detected cases of Hb, 36 were males and 31 were females. Aim: To assess factors that influence spreading Hepatitis B among the residents in Dhaandhoo Island, Maldives. Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Dhaandhoo Island, Maldives. Study was conducted among the age group between 20 to 40 years old male and female who are living in Dhaandhoo and 100 people were selected as a sample size from target population. Results: 92% respondents mentioned that, they have some information about HBV. 59.8% participants replied that HBV was caused by virus. Participants replied less than mean score (mean <2.2174) on the statement that they were not at risk of getting HBV. Majority of the participants were reacted above mean score (mean>3.65) that the HBV vaccine helps to prevent from getting HBV. However, vast majority of the participants 55.4% responded that they never received vaccine against HBV and 51.1% were never attended any information session on HBV to get information on Hepatitis. Conclusion: Result from current study shows maximum numbers of people believe that they were at risk of getting HBV. In contrast, quite high number of respondents strongly agreed that HBV vaccine helps to prevent from getting HBV but vast majority of the participants responded that they had never received vaccine against HBV. Moreover, the survey indicates that large numbers of subjects were never attended any information session on HBV. Therefore, in the light of the result it is important to run an extensive health education program and encourage vaccination to prevent further spreading of HBV within the community.Item Sexual harassment in government offices a knowledge, attitude and practices survey of staff working in male’(Faculty of Health Sciences, 2016-06-01) Fathimath Fauza, Ibrahim; ފާތިމަތު ފައުޒާ އިބްރާހީމްTill now, there is no published study done in Maldives to assess directly about the current status of sexual harassment based on Maldivians. In this research I will look in to the knowledge, attitude and practices of sexual harassment therefore it is very important to know about the current situation in the Maldives. According to a news report in Haveeru Daily based on a survey conducted jointly by the Human Rights Commission and UNDP, publicized that almost one third of the female population in Maldives is victims of sexual harassment and that 26.7 percent of women in workplaces had been verbally abused also, 7.3 percent of women had been physically harassed in a sexual manner (Haveeru Online, 2006). This research is mainly focused on identifying the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards sexual harassment among the staff of government offices in Male‟.185 staff were selected randomly from 14 ministries as the sample from the target population. The sampling technique used was simple random sampling. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 17.0 where the mean, mode, median, Standard deviation, frequencies and percentage analysis was done. The research was built with maintaining validity and reliability including pre-testing and clear ethical consideration. The whole research was based on Social Cognitive Theory in order to keep the focus of the research. The results of this study has shown that most of the staff of government Offices in Male‟ has high knowledge and negative attitude along with lack of appropriate behavior and practices towards sexual harassment among the staff. Finally it was found that sexual harassment could be stopped by having a good interaction within the colleagues in the organization, good rules and regulations in the organizations and implementing them also by respecting each other in the work environment and applying strict religious rules, and giving strict punishment for harassers.