Knowledge and practices related to dengue and its vector: a community-based study from Southeast Brazil

Alves, Adorama Candido; Fabbro, Amaury Lélis Dal; Passos, Afonso Dinis Costa; Carneiro, Ariadne Fernanda Tesarin Mendes; Jorge, Tatiane Martins; Martinez, Edson Zangiacomi

doi:10.1590/0037-8682-0240-2015

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“…However, many admitted to not paying much attention to government-produced commercials. This fact is not in line with other studies conducted with non-indigenous populations [22,29,30].…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Among the natives who participated in the study, there was a predominance of females in both questionnaire responses and blood collections, a fact similar to that reported in other studies with non-indigenous populations. In fact, women, even indigenous women, appear to be more assiduously attending health services and to better adhere to the proposed treatments and activities [21,22]. Despite the greater number of women, there was no significant difference in seroprevalence in relation to sex.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…However, it is important to consider the relative timeline since all of the studies compared here are more than 15 years old [31][32][33][34]. Knowing how to recognise the initial symptoms of dengue is an important factor in deciding whether or not to seek early medical help, which can have a great impact when the final outcome is considered -'remission and cure' or 'death'and in the adoption of early sanitation measures [22,29,35,36]. The aspect already observed in other studies with non-indigenous populations is that the majority of natives with positive results for prior infection by DENV did not perceive the symptoms of a previous exposure to DENV or had asymptomatic disease.…”

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Dengue Fever and Aedes aegypti in indigenous Brazilians: seroprevalence, risk factors, knowledge and practices

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“…However, many admitted to not paying much attention to government-produced commercials. This fact is not in line with other studies conducted with non-indigenous populations [22,29,30].…”

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Dengue Fever and Aedes aegypti in indigenous Brazilians: seroprevalence, risk factors, knowledge and practices

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“…This finding is consistent with other studies reported from India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Brazil. [6][7][8][9] The knowledge for other symptoms was comparatively very less. Only 13.5% of the participants knew about joint pain and11.8% about headache; which is quite less as compared to an online study among social media users in Sri Lanka; probably hinting at the role social media can play in educating people.…”

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Dengue: awareness, preventive practices and water storage behaviour in an urban community of Delhi

Arora¹,

Arora²,

Sharma³

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Dengue, an arboviral disease transmitted by Aedes egypti mosquito, has become an important public health problem, with almost half the population of the world being at risk. Community awareness and involvement for vector control is an important aspect of disease prevention and control. The aims and objective was to assess awareness and preventive practices used for dengue and related water storage behaviour in an urban area of Delhi. Methods: Observational, descriptive, cross sectional study. Results: Awareness about dengue fever and its mode of spread is quite high but the participants are not aware about the practices that are putting their surroundings at risk of vector breeding; especially when it comes to water storage behaviour. Conclusions: Behaviour change at individual and community level is essential for vector and hence dengue control, adoption of proper preventive practices and water storage behaviour needs to be emphasized at the community level.

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“…Previous studies have reported that there is a significant positive correlation between education and 251 level of knowledge and attitude toward DF 17,21 . However, in our study, paediatric patients who were senior high 252 school tend to have increased knowledge and attitude on DF, compared to those in college or university.…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practices on dengue fever among paediatric and adult in-patients in Metro Manila, Philippines

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Guzman²,

Sobrepeña³

et al. 2019

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22Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) studies have included mainly community-based samples, yet, investigation on in-23 patients with Dengue through hospital-based surveillance has not been done. This study aimed to assess and compare the 24 KAP, identify its determinants and protective factors among 250 clinically or serologically confirmed paediatric (n = 233) and 25 adult patients (n = 17) with DF and 250 youth (n = 233) and adult (n = 17) controls. Paediatric patients with DF had significantly 26 higher knowledge and practice mean scores than adult patients with DF and lower practice mean scores than youth controls. 27Being senior high school, days in the hospital and rash determined increased KAP among paediatric patients with DF. 28Mosquito-eating fish, screen windows and Dengue vaccine were protective factors against DF, though, further studies should 29 confirm these results. Moreover, there was a significant positive correlation between knowledge and attitude of paediatric 30 patients with DF, however, similar with adult patients with DF, these domains did not correlate with their practices against 31 DF. This suggests that the translation of knowledge and attitude to better practices against DF was poor. Thus, it is necessary 32 to structure health programs on models that facilitate behavioural change among children and adults. 34 42Alyousefi et al. 6 that poor knowledge on DF has significant positive association with poor preventive practices. 43However, other similar studies had different results. Kumaran et al. 7 and Shuaib et al. 8 reported that knowledge 44 on causes, signs, symptoms, mode of transmission and preventive practices against DF is not correlated with the 45 practice of preventive measures against DF. Aside from these, two case-control studies reported which 46 preventive practices are protective factors against DF. Regression models revealed that removing trash and 47 stagnant water from around the residence, using mosquito repellent oils, use of mosquito bed nets, fumigation 48 inside the house, and piped water inside the house can reduce the risk and vulnerability to DF infection 9, 10 . 49Most of the KAP studies have included only community-based samples and investigation on hospital-50 based samples with clinical or serologically-confirmed DF diagnosis has not been done. Chen et al. 9 interviewed 51 patients who were randomly sampled from a web-based reporting system through telephone interviews. 52However, this method limits the collection to individuals and households with telephones. It also had 50% 53 response and completion rate among respondents 10, 11 . On the other hand, face to face interview with 54 2 questionnaire would obtain good response and acceptance rate (99%) and a low refusal rate (1%) among in-and 55 out-patients 11, 12 . Kenneson et al. 10 also did clinical ascertainment and community screening to interview 56 households with and without DF infections by identifying acute or recent DF infections. However, the data 57 collected among households with acute o...

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Knowledge and practices related to dengue and its vector: a community-based study from Southeast Brazil

Cited by 21 publications

References 10 publications

Dengue Fever and Aedes aegypti in indigenous Brazilians: seroprevalence, risk factors, knowledge and practices

Dengue Fever and Aedes aegypti in indigenous Brazilians: seroprevalence, risk factors, knowledge and practices

Dengue: awareness, preventive practices and water storage behaviour in an urban community of Delhi

Knowledge, attitude and practices on dengue fever among paediatric and adult in-patients in Metro Manila, Philippines

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