[Prevalence and awareness of Toxoplasma gondii of pregnant women in Bazhou City, Hebei Province].

OBJECTIVE

To understand the prevalence and awareness of Toxoplasma gondii of the pregnant women in Bazhou City, Hebei Province, so as to provide the evidence for formulating effective prevention and control interventions.

METHODS

The pregnant women with prenatal screening in the Fourth People's Hospital in Langfang City were selected and investigated with questionnaires. A part of the pregnant women were randomly sampled and received the ELISA test of the antibodies against T. gondii.

RESULTS

Totally 672 pregnant women accepted the questionnaire survey, with an awareness rate of 19.49% (131/ 672). Totally 526 pregnant women of them were randomly selected to take the ELISA test, with a positive rate of 13.88% (73/ 526). The awareness rate and infection rate of T. gondii were related to the education level, occupation and place of residence (χ2= 5.89-17.62, all P < 0.05), and the infection rate was negatively related to the awareness rate (χ2 = 5.37, P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS

Increasing the awareness rate of toxoplasmosis knowledge is one of the effective methods to control the disease. Therefore, the health education about T. gondii should be carried out actively.