Use of insect repellent as personal protection among women of childbearing age in an arbovirus endemic area in Northeastern Brazil.

Autor:	Dias LKS; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Sanhueza-Sanzana C; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Pinheiro Júnior FML; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Martins AF; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Correia FGS; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., de Aguiar IWO; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Ferreira NC; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Stolow J; Tulane University, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Social Behavior and Population Science - New Orleans (LA), USA., Rutherford G; University of California, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics - San Francisco, California (CA), USA., Teixeira MG; Universidade Federal da Bahia, Institute of Collective Health - Salvador (BA), Brazil., Pires Neto RDJ; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., de Almeida RLF; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Coelho ICB; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Legal Medicine - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Frota CC; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Legal Medicine - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil., Kendall C; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil.; Tulane University, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Social Behavior and Population Science - New Orleans (LA), USA., Kerr LRFS; Universidade Federal do Ceará, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health - Fortaleza (CE), Brazil.
Jazyk:	English; Portuguese
Zdroj:	Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology [Rev Bras Epidemiol] 2024 May 13; Vol. 27, pp. e240025. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 13 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1590/1980-549720240025
Abstrakt:	Objective: To analyze the factors associated with the individual use of insect repellent by women of childbearing age living in area endemic for arboviruses in Fortaleza, Brazil. Methods: This is a cohort study carried out between 2018 and 2019 with women aged between 15 and 39 years in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil. A total of 1,173 women users of one of the four selected primary health care units participated in the study. The outcome was divided into: continued use, discontinued use, and nonuse of insect repellent. Crude and adjusted multinominal logistic regression analysis was carried out guided by a hierarchical model, with presentation of the respective odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). The independent variables include: socioeconomic and demographic data, environmental and sanitary characteristics, knowledge of the insect repellent, and behavioral and pregnancy-related aspects. Results: Only 28% of the participants reported using insect repellent during the two waves of the cohort. Women with higher education (OR=2.55; 95%CI 1.44-4.51); who are employed (OR=1.51; 95%CI 1.12-2.03); who received guidance from healthcare professionals (OR=1.74; 95%CI 1.28-2.36) and the media (OR=1.43; 95%CI 1.01-2.02); who intensified precautions against mosquitoes during the epidemic (OR=3.64; 95%CI 2.29-5.78); and who were pregnant between 2016 and 2019 (OR=2.80; 95%CI 1.83-4.30) had increased odds for continued use of insect repellent. Conclusion: The use of insect repellent among women of childbearing age was associated with a higher level of education, employment, guidance on insect repellent provided by healthcare professionals and the media, behavioral changes to protect against mosquitoes during the Zika virus epidemic, and pregnancy when occurring as of the beginning of the epidemic period.
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