Community based Scabies Detection by Trained Non-medical Personnel

Eliza Miranda, Sri Linuwih Menaldi, Rahadi Rihatmadja, Melani Marissa, Mufqi H. Priyanto, Sandra Widaty

2018

Abstract

Scabies infection is one of the common infectious disease occurred in developing countries, including Indonesia. Late diagnosis of scabies leads to prolonged infection, decrease the quality of life, and learning disability in children. Scabies diagnosis is challenging since people awareness to the disease is low, and trained medical personnel and the supporting equipment for diagnosing scabies are not distributed equally. To encounter this problem, community empowerment in scabies active case detection was done at a boarding school located in Bogor, West Java where scabies prevalence is high. This is a pilot study to evaluate the performance of the active case detection by community empowerment in a small-scale population. Six supervisors (non-medical personnel) from the boarding school were trained by dermatovenereologist to identify scabies and asked to examine 128 participated students. Later, the students also clinically examined by dermatovenereologist as comparison and confirmation test. Hypothesis comparison was tested using chi square test. The result for diagnostic study showed a wide range of sensitivity and specificity, respectively from 56 % to 97 % and 0 % to 74 %. Positive predictive and negative predictive values from 67 % to 95 % and 0 % to 56 %. Five out of six non-medical personnel have sensitivity above 60 %, more than the basis estimation of a screening study. We conclude that trained non- medical personal has ability to perform community based scabies detection among high prevalence scabies population.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Miranda E., Menaldi S., Rihatmadja R., Marissa M., Priyanto M. and Widaty S. (2018). Community based Scabies Detection by Trained Non-medical Personnel.In Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD, ISBN 978-989-758-494-7, pages 199-203. DOI: 10.5220/0008153901990203

in Bibtex Style

@conference{rcd18,
author={Eliza Miranda and Sri Linuwih Menaldi and Rahadi Rihatmadja and Melani Marissa and Mufqi H. Priyanto and Sandra Widaty},
title={Community based Scabies Detection by Trained Non-medical Personnel},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,},
year={2018},
pages={199-203},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008153901990203},
isbn={978-989-758-494-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,
TI - Community based Scabies Detection by Trained Non-medical Personnel
SN - 978-989-758-494-7
AU - Miranda E.
AU - Menaldi S.
AU - Rihatmadja R.
AU - Marissa M.
AU - Priyanto M.
AU - Widaty S.
PY - 2018
SP - 199
EP - 203
DO - 10.5220/0008153901990203