Knowledge and practice of Dengue fever prevention of people in Qu?nh Mai commune -Hanoi at 2002
- Author:
Nguyen Van Man
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Dengue fever
- MeSH:
Knowledge;
Dengue/prevention & control;
Epidemiology
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2004;300(7):5-8
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In the year 2002, an interview was conducted on 180 households, where women account for 67,2%, men 32,8%, mean age is 47 years old. Among the interviewers, 100% had known of the disease; 88,3% had known of the symptoms, 95% had known of the transmission route, 94% had thougth that the disease could be prevented, 60,9% had believed in health authorities in behaving as them, 51,5% had complied with health workers, 60,9% had believed in radio and TV. There was a relation of statistic significance between the knowledge and the practice of use of chemical mosquito killers, mosquito net, mosquito killing fish, the storage of water at home ,as well as the environment sanitation. In high educated people, knowledge and practice of prevent of hemorrhagic dengue/dengue fever were better than in low educated ones
