Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding dengue fever in a suburban community in Sri Lanka

Gunasekara, T.D.C.P.; Velathanthiri, V.G.N.S.; Weerasekara, M.M.; Fernando, S.S.N.; Peelawattage, MK; Guruge, Dinuka

doi:10.4038/gmj.v17i1.4355

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“…Majority of them will had good health seeking behavior by visiting hospital two studies also reported the same results, this lap of knowledge in attaining the protective measures will be decreased by the active health educational programs and propaganda during that season. 15,17 The study has its sets of limitations mainly the possibility of interviewer bias and the drawbacks of convenience sampling. The above observations may be true only for the study population and cannot be generalized to other populations belonging to different socio-economic or cultural backgrounds.…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practice on dengue fever and its prevention and control measures in urban slums of South India

Nagoor

Babu

Reddy

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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INTRODUCTIONDengue virus was first isolated in India in 1945.1 Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flulike illness and, sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. Dengue is an acute febrile illness caused by Flavi virus, which exist in four different serotypes, namely DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN-4. The incidence of dengue has increased 30-fold over the last 50 years. Up to 50-100 million infections are now estimated to occur annually in over 100 endemic countries, putting almost half of the world's population at risk.2 Around 2.5 to 3 billion people, living mainly in urban areas of tropical and subtropical regions are ABSTRACT Background: Dengue fever (DF) is a viral infection carried by Aedesaegypti. Dengue is one of the major public health concerns and an emergent disease and contributes annual outbreaks in India. The aims and objectives of the study were to know the levels of knowledge regarding causation and modes of transmission Dengue fever in urban slums of Chittoor and to know the levels of awareness and practices regarding the prevention and control measures against dengue fever. Methods: A community based cross sectional study was done in urban slums of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. The data from the family members residing in 100 households of urban slums were randomly selected from the list and interviewed individually. Apart from education and occupation of the participants, information on knowledge about Dengue fever, preventive practices are taken. The results were shown in proportions, percentage and association of the knowledge attitude and practices with the different factors. Results: Over all 100 (males 57 and females 43) people were interviewed with the mean age of 34.5 years. Almost 68% of the individuals knew mosquito causes vector borne diseases irrespective of their educational status and majority of them were daily wagers. Amongst them more than 70% of them were using protective measures. Majority of them responded the probable breeding sites were plastic pots, muddy pots and vessels (38%). The most commonly using protective measures were mosquito repellants (33%) and coils (19%). More than 90% of the individual visit the hospital for health seeking. Conclusions: The awareness regarding dengue and mosquito control measures was satisfactory to an extent. Surveillance along with periodic health education to the community and proper training of health personnel is required.

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Knowledge, attitude and practice on dengue fever and its prevention and control measures in urban slums of South India

Nagoor

Babu

Reddy

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Telecommunication facilities are widely used as an effective tool for awareness raising and community mobilization in the fight against dengue [59][60][61]. Often, television and radio have signified their vital importance in knowledge dissemination (regarding vector control, symptoms and patient management of dengue), while allowing the VCE to motivate the local communities to contribute toward community involved dengue control activities [61][62]. Therefore, the percentage of households with access to television and radios is a vital parameter that would enhance the adaptive capacity of local communities, reducing the vulnerability to dengue.…”

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Climate change induced vulnerability and adaption for dengue incidence in Colombo and Kandy Districts: The first detailed investigation in Sri Lanka

Udayanga¹,

Gunathilaka

Iqbal

et al. 2020

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Background: Assessing the vulnerability of an infectious disease such as dengue among endemic population is an important requirement to design proactive programmes in order to improve resilience capacity of vulnerable communities. Despite the significance in decision making process especially for rational resource allocation, recognition of actual burden of dengue, the vulnerability of dengue has been limitedly addressed in many countries including Sri Lanka, due to some in a holistic methodology.Methods: A total of 42 variables (entomological, epidemiological, meteorological parameters, landuse practices and socio-demographic data) of all the 38 Medical Officer of Health (MOH) areas in the districts of Colombo and Kandy were considered as candidate variables for composite index based vulnerability assessment. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used in selecting and setting the weight for each indicator. Exposure, Sensitivity, Adaptive Capacity and Vulnerability of all the MOH areas for dengue incidence were calculated.Results: Out of 42 candidate variables, only 23 parameters (Exposure Index: 6 variables; Sensitivity Index: 11 variables; Adaptive Capacity Index: 6 variables) were selected as the indicators to assess climate change vulnerability to dengue. Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) MOH area denoted the highest values for exposure (0.89: exceptionally high exposure), sensitivity (0.86: exceptionally high sensitivity) in the district of Colombo, while Kandy Municipal Council (KMC) area reported the highest exposure (0.79: high exposure) and sensitivity (0.77: high sensitivity) in Kandy. Piliyandala MOH area denoted the highest level of adaptive capacity (0.66) in the district of Colombo followed by Menikhinna (0.68) in Kandy. The highest vulnerability (0.45: moderate vulnerability) to dengue was receded from CMC and the lowest indicated from Galaha MOH (0.15; very low vulnerability) in Kandy. Interestingly the Kandy Municipal Council MOH area had a notable vulnerability of 0.41 (moderate vulnerability), which remained the highest within Kandy.Conclusions: In general, vulnerability for dengue was relatively higher within the MOH areas of Colombo, than in Kandy, suggesting a higher degree of potential susceptibility to dengue within among local communities of Colombo. The VCE are recommended to consider the spatial variations in vulnerability of local communities to dengue for decision making, especially in allocation of limited financial, human and mechanical resources for dengue epidemic management.

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“…The recurrence of DF each year and the rising number of cases with each epidemic suggest that vector control efforts are probably ineffective and need to be improved. [14]…”

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Impact of pharmacist provided knowledge on dengue among selected school children

Malpani¹,

Vulkundakar

Miya³

et al. 2018

Int J Res Pharm Hos & Clin. Pharm

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Background: Dengue is a self-limiting acute mosquito transmitted disease caused by an arbovirus and spread by Aedes mosquitoes, sever infections results in DHF & DSS. Hence school education has been described as a 'social vaccine', and it can serve as a powerful preventive tool. Aim & Objectives: To assess the prevalence of mosquito borne diseases among School children, to assess the knowledge level of high school children regarding dengue and its prevention before and after the administration of planned teaching programme and to provide health education regarding dengue fever among school children. Materials and Methods: A six months' community based prospective observational study was conducted at selected schools of Gulbarga District. Total of 265 students were enrolled into the study by considering study criteria. Our inclusion criteria are all students of secondary school students of class 8th -10th. The data was collected from school children of RGEMS & AEMS in Gulbarga district. Results: In our study, most of the students were unaware of insect and species of mosquito which is responsible for causing DF, DHS & DSS and their knowledge was found to be excellent 3.6%, good 33.46%, average 37.90% and poor 25.00% before providing the knowledge. We pharmacist in our study played a vital role in providing education to the school children and their knowledge progress after our study was found, excellent 69.23%, good 30.76% and none of the students had average and poor knowledge. Conclusion: Our study concludes that the educational interventions by the pharmacist plays a vital role by educating the students and their by improving theirs and surrounding community health. Hence it is very imperative for pharmacists and other health care disciplinarians to carry out community based studies or educational interventions at all levels of students particularly in rural India where there is scope to improve their knowledge which helps students their parents and siblings and surrounding community.

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding dengue fever in a suburban community in Sri Lanka

Cited by 29 publications

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Knowledge, attitude and practice on dengue fever and its prevention and control measures in urban slums of South India

Knowledge, attitude and practice on dengue fever and its prevention and control measures in urban slums of South India

Climate change induced vulnerability and adaption for dengue incidence in Colombo and Kandy Districts: The first detailed investigation in Sri Lanka

Impact of pharmacist provided knowledge on dengue among selected school children

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