Factors Associated with Larval Control Practices in a Dengue Outbreak Prone Area

Abstract

In order to reduce the risk of dengue outbreak recurrence in a dengue outbreak prone area, the members of the community need to sustain certain behavior to prevent mosquito from breeding. Our study aims to identify the factors associated with larval control practices in this particular community. A cross-sectional study involves 322 respondents living in a dengue outbreak prone area who were interviewed using a pretested questionnaire. The level of knowledge about Aedes mosquitoes, dengue transmission, its symptoms, and personal preventive measures ranges from fair to good. The level of attitude towards preventive measures was high. However, reported level of personal larval control practices was low (33.2%). Our multiple logistic regression analysis showed that only those with a good level of attitude towards personal preventive measure and frequent attendance to health campaigns were significantly associated with the good larval control practices. We conclude that, in a dengue outbreak prone area, having a good attitude towards preventive measures and frequent participation in health campaigns are important factors to sustain practices on larval control.

Support of Family Member, Public Figure, and Health Attendant to PSN Behavior and Related Factors

“…There are several factors related with PSN activity based on previous researches, like education, past experience of DHF infected, knowledge, attitude, information access, has been coached, and health attendant support by PSN activity (Listyorini, 2016;Mohamad, 2014). This is aligned with previous research on Subdistrict Mangunjiwan Demak indicating that knowledge and attitude have relation with PSN (Azam, 2016).…”

“…The statistic test on father, mother, and children respondent indicates there is not relation between knowledge and PSN behavior. This is aligned with Thakolwiboon (2013) stating that the knowledge is not related with DHF prevention behavior of community in Thaluang Thailand (p=0.862) also as found out in a study by Mohamad (2014) stating that knowledge is not related with PSN behavior on DHF risk region in Malaysia, yet this is not aligned with result by Chandren (2015) stating there is relation between knowledge with DHF prevention activity of Orang Asli in Semenanjung Malaysia (p=0.015) and the result of research by Castro (2013) stating that there is relation between knowledge with DHF prevention activity in La Lisa Havana Kuba. The unalignment can be explained through Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) saying that knowledge can not affect the behavior directly yet it is affected by intention first, while the intention it self is affected by subjective attitude and norm (Notoatmodjo, 2014).…”

“…Statistic test indicate that information access is not related with PSN behavior whether on father, mother, or children respondent. This is not aligned with Mohamad (2014) stating that information access is related with PSN behavior on DHF risk region in Malaysia and Nuryanti (2013) saying that information access is related with DHF PSN behavior of community on Subdistrict Karangjati Blora Regency (p=0,001). The unalignment can be explained by Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) stating that access to information source is not directly yet through cognitive media process first.…”

Experiencia y percepción del riesgo asociados a conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas sobre dengue en Riohacha, Colombia

“…Countless studies have been carried out on dengue KAP in endemic Latin American areas, for instance, Brazil 11,12 , Cuba 13 , Venezuela 14 , Puerto Rico 15 , and Peru 16 , as well as in other countries like Malaysia [17][18][19] , India 20 , Australia 21 , and Pakistan 22 . Nevertheless, these studies have not as-sessed how risk perception and the experience of dengue could determine KAP.…”

Conhecimentos, crenças e práticas em relação à dengue

“…Segundo Donalisio et al (2001), conseguir uma efetiva mudança de comportamentos da população é uma tarefa árdua, que tem sido um desafio de muitos programas de prevenção e controle da dengue no mundo. Muitos estudos já evidenciaram discrepâncias entre o grau de conhecimento da população sobre a dengue e suas práticas insuficientes de prevenção (Winch et al, 2002;Chiaravalloti Neto et al, 2003;Hairi et al, 2003;Gonçalves Neto et al, 2006;Cavalcante et al, 2007;Ribeiro, 2008;Caregnato et al, 2008;Santos et al, 2011;Boaventura & Pereira, 2014;Gul et al, 2014;Mohamad et al, 2014).…”