Awareness regarding dengue fever among the link workers of urban health centres of Bengaluru City-South India

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• 作者：Gowda Giriyanna^a ; Kulkarni Sridevi^a ; ^{sridevi.r.kulkarni@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; M Madhusudan^a ; Kumar Ravi^b
• 关键词：Dengue ; Link workers ; Awareness
• 刊名：Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：5
• 期：supp_S1
• 页码：S42-S44
• 全文大小：245 K

文摘

To assess awareness of link workers regarding dengue fever and its prevention and the effect of health education about dengue and its prevention.

Methods

Prospective interventional study was conducted in selected urban health centers of Bengaluru. About 106 link workers selected by systematic random sampling were interviewed by trained investigators. Health education was given to all of them and awareness was reassessed after a gap of one month.

Results

Mean age of link workers was (36.95 ± 5.88) years. A total of 49.06% of link workers were aware that dengue is caused by virus, 74.53% were aware of complications of dengue, 87.74 % were aware that dengue is spread by Aedes mosquito. After health education the above observations increased to 81.4%, 87.63%, and 90.72% respectively. Difference between mean pre- and post-test score was statistically significant (P < 0.05).

Conclusions

Awareness regarding dengue fever and its prevention was poor among link workers, which improved significantly after health education.