Atiq-ur Rehman, Muhammad Asif Mahmood, Syeda Farhana Kazmi, Farrukh Munir, Usman Ghani.
Dengue Fever; Impact of Knowledge on Preventive Practice.
Ann Pak Inst Med Sci Jan ;11(4):195-201.

Objectives: To study the impact of knowledge on preventive practices, rating the sources of information about dengue fever and to assess the level of public knowledge and preventive practice about dengue fever. Study design: Descriptive cross sectional research design. Place and duration: The data were collected from Faisalabad and Lahore city during the months of August, September and October 2015. Materials and Methods: A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data about dengue fever knowledge, attitude and practices. The sample of the study consisted of 450 subjects. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test was computed by SPSS 20 version. Result: In this study it was observed that the major source of information about dengue fever was television as 74.22% participants got the information about dengue from television, 12.67%, from newspaper, 7.78%, from teachers / professors and 5.33% participants from other sources health care providers, radio, friends and Internet. The participants having low knowledge about dengue was 56.22%, moderate knowledge 30.67% and high knowledge 13.11% as well as 47.11% participants taking the poor preventive practice about dengue, 44.22% taking the fair preventive practice and 8.67% taking the good preventive practice. The significant association between participants’ knowledge and preventive practice about dengue χ2 (4) = 30.19, p < 0.05 was observed. Conclusion: The fact has been established that knowledge of dengue fever having the significant impact on preventive practices. More than half of the public having the low knowledge about dengue and nearly half of the public taking the poor preventive practice.

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