Study on awareness about vector borne diseases and education about preventive measures in rural field practice areas of Kurnool medical college, Kurnool

Abstract

Background: Vector borne diseases (VBDs) account for 17% of the estimated global burden of all infectious diseases. The most deadly VBD, malaria caused an estimated 627,000 deaths in 2012. The world's fastest growing VBD is dengue, with a 30-fold increase in disease incidence over last 50 years. Objective: To create awareness about common VBDs in the villages through village volunteers and educate them about the measures to prevent the occurrence of the disease by community participation and behavioral change communication and to assess the impact of educational intervention. Materials and Methods: This study was community-based longitudinal study conducted in five villages in the rural field practice area of Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool. Sample of 50 houses examined in each village before intervention and reexamined after conducting five educational intervention sessions with 1 week gap between each session for a total period of 5 weeks to assess the impact. Result: A total of 250 villagers and public health workers from five villages participated in both pre-educational and post-educational intervention. There was significant improvement in the habits such as avoiding sleeping, cleaning water containers weekly, and covering of water storage tanks with lids. Conclusion: It is concluded that with the intensified efforts toward creating a public awareness about VBDs, the measures taken to control vectors other than personal protection measures suggested that health education interventions are effective and remain a valuable tool in community-based vector prevention and control interventions.

Study to assess the knowledge and practice of accredited social health activist workers regarding dengue in Bengaluru urban district Karnataka India

“…Majority of ASHA's had knowledge about symptoms of DF, mode of transmission, breeding sites of mosquitoes, etc., similar results to the other studies whereas only 30.72% knew the danger signs of dengue which is very essential for early referral to hospital to prevent complications and deaths due to dengue, this aspect has been enhanced and given importance in guidelines for reporting of an outbreak of dengue [6,14] and these results indicate that this aspects needs to be stressed in their training program. [15,11] Although the study showed 143 (86.1%) practiced complete preventive measures, nearly 15% of the ASHA workers were lacking in that, hence there is need for reinforcement in the training sessions. [15,14] One of the important factor influenced was about one-fourth of the workers complained that there was lack of community participation in implementation of control measures.…”

“…[15,11] Although the study showed 143 (86.1%) practiced complete preventive measures, nearly 15% of the ASHA workers were lacking in that, hence there is need for reinforcement in the training sessions. [15,14] One of the important factor influenced was about one-fourth of the workers complained that there was lack of community participation in implementation of control measures. Similar observation was noticed Malhotra and Kaur study, [4] Kohli et al study in Delhi, [10] and Sreedevi et al study in Karnool.…”

“…Similar observation was noticed Malhotra and Kaur study, [4] Kohli et al study in Delhi, [10] and Sreedevi et al study in Karnool. [15] A study by Arpit et al among the link workers of public health centers where the overall knowledge was increased from 15.7% to 25.6% after intervention (P < 0.0001). [16] Current study showed better knowledge and practice in ASHs with more years of experience than compared to the higher level education.…”

Awareness, knowledge and practices about mosquito borne diseases in patients of tertiary care hospital in Navi Mumbai

“…Malaria, the most deadly VBD, caused an estimated 627,000 deaths in 2012. 1 Though several measures for their prevention and control are followed, yet the problem density is too high with 300-500 million cases and 1.1-2.7 million deaths due to malaria alone globally per year. 2 Out of six vector borne diseases, malaria, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, dengue and chickengunya are transmitted by different kind of vector mosquitoes, while kala azar is transmitted by sand flies.…”

A cross sectional study on knowledge, attitude and practices regarding vector borne diseases in the urban field practice area of a medical college

“…6 In a study conducted by Sreedevi et al, in Kurnool found that only 32% of the population had knowledge about diseases spread by mosquitos. 7 When asked about symptoms, 52.5% i.e. 136 of the subjects could name at least one symptom and 47.5% had no knowledge of any symptoms.…”