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Background: Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a serious and highly contagious viral disease. It constitutes a public health threat and emergency. Therefore, all medical staff, notably medical students, should be trained to lessen the health outcomes during an outbreak. Purposes: The aims of this paperwork are to determine the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices regarding EVD of students at St Christopher Iba Mar Diop Medical School in Dakar in the one hand and identify the associated factors the other hand. Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional, observational, descriptive and analytical study on St. Christopher School medical students. We collected the information about epidemiological knowledge, modes of transmission, clinical signs, prevention of EVD through a self-administered questionnaire, as well as attitudes and practices towards EVD. The data were analyzed through Epi-info 7.1 software. The chi 2 test and logistic regression were used to identify factors associated to knowledge state, attitudes and practices regarding EVD. Results: We interviewed 510 students. Mostly, the data about EVD were provided by television (89.4%), the Internet (64.1%) and discussions (58.0). The main clinical features of EVD included fever (86.3%), diarrhea (77.1%), headache (64.3%) and abnormal bleeding (62.6%). The most commonly identified modes of transmission were blood (79.8%), contact with an infected dead person (77.8%) and bushmeat (77.6%). The majority of surveyed students (89.2%) identified health workers and family members of a person with EVD (79.8%) to be in higher risk during an EVD outbreak. Less than half of the surveyed students, 39.6%, had a proper global knowledge of the EVD (score ≥ 26). Only one-third (32.7%) had a good epidemiological knowledge. However, they had a better knowledge of modes of transmission (46.9%), clinical signs (49.8%) and prevention of EVD (90.4%). Amongst the 510 surveyed students, 305 (59.8%) had a proper knowledge about the attitudes and practices regarding EVD (score ≥ 13). Educational level was associated with good knowledge EVD, attitudes and practices (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Despite global satisfactory outcomes on EVD, capacity building about epidemiology and the clinic should be performed to allow students improve their.

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Ebola Virus Disease among Students at a School of Medicine in Dakar, Senegal