Avaliação do nível de conhecimento sobre a toxoplasmose na comunidade escolar do instituto Federal de Mato Grosso-Campus Confresa

Abstract

Toxoplasmosis is a cosmopolitan zoonosis that is, distributed all over the world. Its clinical features range from an asymptomatic infection to seriously serious systemic manifestations. The pathogenesis and symptomatology of toxoplasmosis may depend according to the form of contamination. Initially it is important to say that "we live in a sea of toxoplasmosis" because the disease occurs in all mammals and birds of the planet. However, it should be noted that these data refer to "toxoplasmosis infection" because the "toxoplasmosis disease" is much less frequent. T. gondii is considered to be "opportunistic", because if the immunity of the patient is reduced, "infection" will progress to "disease". Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite that can be found in several tissues, cells (except red blood cells) and in organic liquids. In order to obtain data regarding knowledge about toxoplasmosis, a descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study was carried out using questionnaires with objective questions in the school community of the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso-Campus Confresa-MT, composed of 154 undergraduate students, 23 technicians and 11 outsourced employees. Most of the interviewed students aged 16 to 25, males, self-declared browns/blacks with low schooling, lower family income showed, in general, lower level of knowledge about toxoplasmosis, including on the forms of contamination. This was also observed in the responses of outsourced employees, especially those with low educational level, female and browns/blacks. Finally, the analysis of data regarding the application of questionnaire to the servers showed that this group has the highest level of knowledge about toxoplasmosis and its forms of contamination, although they did not receive guidance about the disease. Another important fact is that a large number of women interviewed stated that they did not have knowledge about the disease and its means of contamination. Taken together all these data lead us to conclude that, in general, there is a low level of knowledge about toxoplasmosis and its forms of contamination in the school community of the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso-Campus Confresa-MT. These data show the level of knowledge of Confresa society and region, considering that the school community of the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso is made up of members of this society, so the results presented here can support the implementation of awareness campaigns.