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Comparing the effect of a leaflet and a movie in preventing tick bites and Lyme disease in The Netherlands

BACKGROUND: Lyme disease (LD) has become the most common vector borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Prevention relies predominantly on fostering protective behaviors (e.g., avoiding tick areas, using protective clothing and repellent, and doing routine tick checks post-exposure). The objective...

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Autores principales: Beaujean, Desirée Jacqueline Mathieu Angélique, Crutzen, Rik, Gassner, Fedor, Ameling, Caroline, Wong, Albert, van Steenbergen, James Everard, Ruwaard, Dirk
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27287731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3146-2
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author Beaujean, Desirée Jacqueline Mathieu Angélique
Crutzen, Rik
Gassner, Fedor
Ameling, Caroline
Wong, Albert
van Steenbergen, James Everard
Ruwaard, Dirk
author_facet Beaujean, Desirée Jacqueline Mathieu Angélique
Crutzen, Rik
Gassner, Fedor
Ameling, Caroline
Wong, Albert
van Steenbergen, James Everard
Ruwaard, Dirk
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description BACKGROUND: Lyme disease (LD) has become the most common vector borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Prevention relies predominantly on fostering protective behaviors (e.g., avoiding tick areas, using protective clothing and repellent, and doing routine tick checks post-exposure). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness (in terms of knowledge, perceived severity and susceptibility, self-efficacy, response efficacy, intention, and behavior over time) and appreciation of a leaflet and a movie as tools for informing the public in the Netherlands about ticks and LD protective behaviors. METHODS: Participants (1,677 at t1 and 361 extra at t2) were members of a representative Internet panel (adults aged 18 years and above). A four group randomized controlled design was used to test the effect of an information leaflet and a movie (two intervention groups), compared to a control group and a follow-up only control group. Data were collected over two periods: July 15–29, 2013 (t1) and at follow-up 4 weeks later, August 16–31, 2013 (t2). RESULTS: Post-intervention results show all respondents in all groups possess good general basic knowledge of ticks and LD. Respondents in both the leaflet and movie groups knew more than respondents in the control group, and had greater awareness of best practices after a tick bite. Intention to perform protective behavior in future was stronger among respondents in the intervention groups. While respondents generally appreciated both the movie and the leaflet, they found the movie ran too long. Follow-up revealed no lasting positive effects from either the leaflet or the movie. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that both the movie and the leaflet are valued and effective intervention tools for improving knowledge about tick bites and strengthening self-efficacy and intentions to perform protective behavior against ticks and LD . Achieving lasting effects, however, calls for more action. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3146-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-49029412016-06-12 Comparing the effect of a leaflet and a movie in preventing tick bites and Lyme disease in The Netherlands Beaujean, Desirée Jacqueline Mathieu Angélique Crutzen, Rik Gassner, Fedor Ameling, Caroline Wong, Albert van Steenbergen, James Everard Ruwaard, Dirk BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Lyme disease (LD) has become the most common vector borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Prevention relies predominantly on fostering protective behaviors (e.g., avoiding tick areas, using protective clothing and repellent, and doing routine tick checks post-exposure). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness (in terms of knowledge, perceived severity and susceptibility, self-efficacy, response efficacy, intention, and behavior over time) and appreciation of a leaflet and a movie as tools for informing the public in the Netherlands about ticks and LD protective behaviors. METHODS: Participants (1,677 at t1 and 361 extra at t2) were members of a representative Internet panel (adults aged 18 years and above). A four group randomized controlled design was used to test the effect of an information leaflet and a movie (two intervention groups), compared to a control group and a follow-up only control group. Data were collected over two periods: July 15–29, 2013 (t1) and at follow-up 4 weeks later, August 16–31, 2013 (t2). RESULTS: Post-intervention results show all respondents in all groups possess good general basic knowledge of ticks and LD. Respondents in both the leaflet and movie groups knew more than respondents in the control group, and had greater awareness of best practices after a tick bite. Intention to perform protective behavior in future was stronger among respondents in the intervention groups. While respondents generally appreciated both the movie and the leaflet, they found the movie ran too long. Follow-up revealed no lasting positive effects from either the leaflet or the movie. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that both the movie and the leaflet are valued and effective intervention tools for improving knowledge about tick bites and strengthening self-efficacy and intentions to perform protective behavior against ticks and LD . Achieving lasting effects, however, calls for more action. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3146-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4902941/ /pubmed/27287731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3146-2 Text en © Beaujean et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Crutzen, Rik
Gassner, Fedor
Ameling, Caroline
Wong, Albert
van Steenbergen, James Everard
Ruwaard, Dirk
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27287731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3146-2
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