Health educational intervention is an effective tool for control the dengue disease as current menace

Authors

  • Bhawna pant Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India
  • Sartaj ahmad S.V. Subharti University Meerut, U.P., India
  • Amit mohan varshney Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India
  • Arvind k. Shukla Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India
  • Aditi singh Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21276/apjhs.2014.1.4.17

Keywords:

Dengue, urban and rural students, health education

Abstract

Background: Dengue has become a global problem since the second world war and is endemic in more than 110 countries. Apart from eliminating the mosquitoes, work is ongoing on a vaccine, as well as medication targeted directly at the virus. Objective: To ascertain the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding Dengue. Among students in urban and rural areas of Meerut District. Materials and Methods: A quasi interventional study was conducted among 320 students, (200 from urban and 120 from rural students) were randomly selected. Chi –square test used for significant differences between before and Post Intervention response. Results: The knowledge, attitudes and practices of students was inadequate regarding dengue before the educational session and better improvement was observed after the educational session. Conclusion: There is better improvement found in knowledge attitude and practice for the control dengue after educational session. This study concludes that health educational intervention is an effective tool for prevention and controls the Dengue as disease.

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Author Biographies

Bhawna pant, Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India

Professor, Department Community Medicine , 

Sartaj ahmad, S.V. Subharti University Meerut, U.P., India

Asstt Professor Medical Sociology, 

Amit mohan varshney, Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India

Asstt Professor, Department Community Medicine, 

Arvind k. Shukla, Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India

Asstt Professor Bio-Statistics, Department Community Medicine, 

Aditi singh, Subharti Medical College Meerut, U.P., India

Junior resident, Department Community Medicine, 

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Published

2014-12-30

How to Cite

Bhawna pant, Sartaj ahmad, Amit mohan varshney, Arvind k. Shukla, & Aditi singh. (2014). Health educational intervention is an effective tool for control the dengue disease as current menace . Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences, 1(4), 411–416. https://doi.org/10.21276/apjhs.2014.1.4.17

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 4 (2014): Vol 1| Issue 4, October - December 2014

Section

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