Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Community Towards Bovine Tuberculosis in Dabo Hana District of Buno Bedelle Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia.

Abstract

n Ethiopia, there seems to be lower knowledge, attitude, and practice of the community on bovine tuberculosis. Therefore, a community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from March 2024 to October 2024 to assess the community’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward the disease in the Dabo Hana district of the Buno Bedelle zone, Oromia regional state, South-Western Ethiopia. A total of 422 randomly selected study participants were interviewed face-to-face to collect appropriate information. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 27. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the frequency, percentage, or proportion. A binary logistic regression technique was used to determine the association between socio- demographic characteristics and communities’ KAP of bovine tuberculosis in the area. The confidence interval was considered at 95%, and p < 0.05 was set for significance. From a total of study participants, 48.6% were between the ages of 18-35, 45.9% of them were between 36-50, and 5.5% of them were between 51-90 years old. Based on gender, 68% of the respondents were male, while 32% of them were female. During this study, married respondents were higher (82.2%) compared with unattached (17.8%) respondents. Among all respondents, 41% of them were educated, while 249 (59%) of them were not. Concerning the occupational status of participants, 332 (78.7%) were farmers, 6.4% were government employees, 4.9% were merchants, 10% were labor workers, and 94.8% of them had cattle. The overall mean score of knowledge indicated that 68.5% of the participants had good knowledge toward bovine tuberculosis