Most Likely Pathways of Toxoplasma gondii infection
The purpose of this questionnaire is to compare the knowledge of Toxoplasma gondii infection pathways among LUHS Medical and Odontology faculty students of different years.
Your answers will help determine the general attitudes towards keeping and raising pets, understanding of pet borne (zoonotic) diseases that can be passed on to the owner, and knowledge of personal hygiene measures applied to prevent toxoplasmosis.
This questionnaire is anonymous and will not be used to identify you in any way. The data gathered will be processed and presented in a generalized form only.
The questionnaire can take 10-15 minutes to complete.
Which faculty do you study in?
What is the language of instruction?
What is your current academic year?
1. Do you have, or have you ever had a cat in your home?
1.1 If No, would you like to keep a cat in the future?
2. How did you obtain the cat that lives in your home?
Other (please specify):
- The cat came from our neighbours and chose us as it's new owners
- I don't have any cats
- i don’t know yet
- Stray cat in my grandma's house gave birth to kittens so I took 2 kittens home
- Born at my mother's home
- In the market
- I got a cat, when I started dating with my gf
- bought from other people
- Friends' cat brought kittens, so my mom adopted one
- I don't have a cat
3. Where does your cat spend most of its time?
Other:
- I don't have any cats
- Half a year exclusively indoors, half a year goes outside freely
- Outside in day and inside at night.
- indoors, where people are, or outdoors
- Indoors and outside, it depends where cat wants to be
- I don't have a cat
- From a stranger who couldn't keep the cat
- It depends in wich room is family members
- indoors, anywhere in the house, and outside
- Dont have
4. Does your cat have regular or occasional contact with wild animals?
4.1 If Yes, please specify the location:
Other (please specify):
- no where
- Barn
- We re tryin to take it for a little walk in a park, near our flat, so it can get some contact with other dogs, cats etc.
- No
- The room
- I don't have a cat
- No
- None
- None
- No
5. How regularly is your cat inspected by a vet?
6. Is your cat vaccinated?
7. Has your cat ever been diagnosed with toxoplasmosis?
8. Is your cat known to hunt any of these:
Other:
- Rodents & birds
- no
- No
- No
- I do not know
- would eat can food
- Sometimes she is trying to catch some birds but i think she is very unlucky at that
- All of the above
- does not hunt
- no
9. What are you feeding your cat?
Other (please specify):
- A mix of dry and canned cat food & human food like sausage
- All of the above except for entrails.
- A mix of dry and canned cat food and some human food
- Usually dry cat food, sometimes with canned cat food or food from table
- Both dry and canned food, occasionally - some raw meat
- dry food, wet food, sometimes raw meat
- raw meat (chicken) and dry cat food
- We tryin to give it some fresh food, but mostly, it gets a mix of dry and canned cat food
- Dry and canned cat food, human food
- mixed cat food (dry and canned) + human food including raw meat
10. Is cat food served in a dedicated dish?
11. Does your cat have a litter-box inside the home?
12 If No, where does your cat defecate and urinate?
13 Where is the litter-box located?
14 Please describe any litter-box accidents:
15 How often is the litter-box cleaned out?
1. How do you clean the cat's litter-box?
2. Do you disinfect the litter-box?
3. Where do you dispose of the litter-box contents?
4. Do you wear gloves when working in the garden?
5. Do you wash your hands after working in the garden?
6. Do you thoroughly wash any fruits and vegetables that you bring in from the garden?
7. If you use raw meat as an ingredient, do you observe the prophylaxis requirements?
8. Which of the following do you wash after contact with raw meat?
9. What do you use for the cleanup?
10. Do you allow the cat to walk around the kitchen, inspect foodstuffs and kitchen utensils?
11. Do you allow the cat to climb on the table on which you eat?
12. Do you allow the cat to sample food from your plate?
13. Do you feed the cat from your hands?
1. Does your study program have a course on parasitology?
2. Do you know what the term zoonotic infectious diseases mean?
3. List the names of zoonotic infectious diseases that you know:
- Influenza, toxoplasmosis , teniasis, covid19.
- Toxo
- trichinelliosis, leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, salmonelloosis
- toxosplasmosis, salmonelosis, rabies, Ebola, lymes disease, viral encephalitis.
- rabies
- Maliaria,
- toxoplasma
- Toxoplasmosis, trichinosis, toxocariasis, Lymes, rabies
- -
- anthrax, avian influenza
4. Do you know what toxoplasmosis is?
5. Is it correct to say that toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by infection with the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii?
6. Is it correct to say that toxoplasmosis is often asymptomatic?
7. Is it true that toxoplasmosis cannot be passed through raw or undercooked meat?
8. Who is the only true definitive host of Toxoplasma gondii?
9. Who are the temporary hosts of Toxoplasma gondii?
10. The infectious stage of Toxoplasma gondii that cats pass directly to humans from environment is:
11. Can Humans be orally infected with Toxoplasma gondii through foodstuffs?
12. If Yes – with which stage?
13. If so, then what foodstuffs pose the highest risk?
14. Which population has the highest risk of contracting toxoplasmosis?
15. Toxoplasmosis risk factors in human behaviour are:
16. Should pregnant women avoid cat litter-boxes?
17. If Yes what is the reason why pregnant women should avoid cleaning cat litter-boxes?
- Her and her unborn child may get infected
- If a pergnant woman gets toxosplasmosis from cat's feces fetus will develop congenital malformations due to the desiease.
- Because they can get infected
- to not be infected
- Can transmit or to the fetus
- -
- They can easily be infected
- There can be Oocysts.
- They can get infected easily
- It is most probably fetal for the fetus.