Knowledge, attitudes and preventive behaviors related to dengue vector breeding control measures among adults in communities of Vientiane, capital of the Lao PDR
| Autor: | Somsak Wongsawass, Jiraporn Chompikul, Cheerwit Rattanapan, Chanthalay Sayavong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Adult
Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Mosquito Control Preventive behavior Control (management) Community Logistic regression lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Dengue fever Dengue Interviews as Topic Environmental health Disease Transmission Infectious medicine Humans lcsh:RC109-216 Mass media Dengue vector Communicable disease business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health lcsh:RA1-1270 General Medicine medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Knowledge Infectious Diseases Attitude Laos Vector (epidemiology) Female Health education Descriptive research business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Infection and Public Health, Vol 8, Iss 5, Pp 466-473 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1876-0341 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jiph.2015.03.005 |
| Popis: | Summary: This research aimed to determine the knowledge, attitudes and preventive behaviors (KAP) of adults in relation to dengue vector control measures in the communities of Vientiane, the capital of the Lao PDR. A total of 207 respondents were actively participating in this cross-sectional descriptive study in 2011. Representatives of households were interviewed face-to-face by six trained interviewers using a structured questionnaire. KAP reliabilities of 0.89, 0.91 and 0.95 were reported in the pilot sample of 30 cases. The associations between each independent variable and prevention behavior were tested with chi-square tests. Multiple logistic regression was used to determine the factors that were significantly associated with preventive behavior while controlling for the other variables. The results revealed that 51.69% of the respondents had a high level of knowledge. More than 94% of the respondents knew that dengue fever is a dangerous communicable disease and that dengue fever is transmitted from person to person via mosquitoes. More than half (56.52%) of the participants had positive attitudes toward vector control measures, and 52.17% exhibited a high level of preventive behavior in terms of dengue vector control measures. Preventive behaviors were significantly associated with information provided from sources that included health personnel (p = 0.038) and heads of villages (p = 0.031) and with knowledge levels (p |
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