Appendix 2:
Age group that answered the survey
(Appendix 2 shows the different age that I asked with again the majority of the 40+ answering the questionnaire.)
Appendix 3:
(Appendix shows the number of people that I asked on how to prevent MRSA)
All together I asked 20 people to participate in the questionnaire and by the look of my results it shows that the governments plan on raising the awareness of MRSA seems to be working and taking into account.
Symbols
Since the rise in the number of cases in Braitin of MRSA, health agency have bought out a lot of awareness in trackling the bacteria infection such as big impacting signs to wash your hands to try and prevent the dieases from happening. Looking at recent data it shows that the number of MRSA cases have dropped and this shows the campaign to stop this superbug looks like to be working and people noticing these big and eye catching notices.
That is one of the strengths in trying to prevent MRSA but one of the weakness to these signs are psychological reasons and people read these signs and don’t take notice of this and don’t wash their hands and MRSA would still be around in hospital’s. The target groups that these are aimed at is for everyone but not everyone listens to these eye catching signs which could be due to individual’s unwillingness to listen and possibly it may have poor presentations to the younger population.
(National targets for MRSA is enclosed in the back of this cousework)
(Local targets for MRSA is enclosed in the back of this coursework)
Personal lifestyle choices
As mentioned washing hands and other personal hygiene factors help prevent the spreads of MRSA.
Factors which interfere with prevention
Public perception of risk – people see the signs but very few follow to wash before they enter the ward or even wash their hands after leaving a ward, they think as they are not it will not affect them.
Some have such high fear of MRSA that they will not go into hospital for operations etc… as shown the media has raised the profile of MRSA with most people knowing about it. But it has also fanned the panic about it.
Patient compliance
Do all patients follow exactly what the doctor asks – They do not take these precautions e.g. wash hands when going to visit patient for chats in the ward. People think that because their a patient it wont happen to them.
Antibiotic resistant: this is why MRSA is a big problem and will be a bigger problem in the future. With it becoming more resistant to antibiotics it will be hard to prevent in the future.
MRSA prevention is very expensive spending a lot of money on deep cleaning in hospitals, better cleaners, educational signs and provision of the correct soaps, gloves etc… this could prevent some primary care trusts (PCT) from spending the correct amount to prevent MRSA.
Arthritis:
There are not any specific prevention notices in place to prevent Arthritis but there are campaigns to everyone on how know to get the chronic disease faster then normal. Many campaigns in Britain are to lose weight. Obesity is most common cause of getting Arthritis at an early strage in life, so many organisations target mainly the young to live a healthy lifestyle to try and not get arthritis at an early stage.
Factors which infuence prevention – public perception of risk, many people think that arthritis is an old age disease and will not happen to young people this is wrong because some young people do end up getting arthritis. Also some people think that nothing can be done to help once they got the disease.
Funding available:
Arthritis is not a very “fashionable” disease, so it does not attract funding in such high levels as other diseases.
Sources:
Primary:
Produced a survey that people took part in
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