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Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia
Background: Dengue has affected more than one-third of the world population and Malaysia has recorded an increase in the number of dengue cases since 2012. Selangor state recorded the highest number of dengue cases in Malaysia. Most of the dengue infections occur among people living in hotspot areas...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473475/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30781369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4010037 |
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author | Ghani, Nurul Akmar Shohaimi, Shamarina Hee, Alvin Kah-Wei Chee, Hui-Yee Emmanuel, Oguntade Alaba Ajibola, Lamidi Sarumoh |
author_facet | Ghani, Nurul Akmar Shohaimi, Shamarina Hee, Alvin Kah-Wei Chee, Hui-Yee Emmanuel, Oguntade Alaba Ajibola, Lamidi Sarumoh |
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description | Background: Dengue has affected more than one-third of the world population and Malaysia has recorded an increase in the number of dengue cases since 2012. Selangor state recorded the highest number of dengue cases in Malaysia. Most of the dengue infections occur among people living in hotspot areas of dengue. This study aims to compare Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among communities living in hotspot and non-hotspot dengue areas. Method: Communities living in 20 hotspot and 20 non-hotspot areas in Selangor were chosen in this study where 406 participants were randomly selected to answer questionnaires distributed at their housing areas. Total marks of each categories were compared using t-test. Result: Results show that there were significant mean differences in marks in Knowledge (p value: 0.003; 15.41 vs. 14.55) and Attitude (p value: < 0.001; 11.41 vs. 10.33), but not Practice (p value 0.101; 10.83 vs. 10.47) categories between communities of non-hotspot and hotspot areas. After considering two confounding variables which are education level and household income, different mean marks are found to be significant in Knowledge when education level acts as a covariate and Attitude when both act as covariates. Conclusion: Overall results show that people living in non-hotspot areas had better knowledge and attitude than people living in hotspot areas, but no difference was found in practice. This suggests that public health education should be done more frequently with people with a low education background and low household income, especially in hotspot areas to fight dengue outbreak and make dengue cases decrease effectively. |
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spelling | pubmed-64734752019-04-29 Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia Ghani, Nurul Akmar Shohaimi, Shamarina Hee, Alvin Kah-Wei Chee, Hui-Yee Emmanuel, Oguntade Alaba Ajibola, Lamidi Sarumoh Trop Med Infect Dis Article Background: Dengue has affected more than one-third of the world population and Malaysia has recorded an increase in the number of dengue cases since 2012. Selangor state recorded the highest number of dengue cases in Malaysia. Most of the dengue infections occur among people living in hotspot areas of dengue. This study aims to compare Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among communities living in hotspot and non-hotspot dengue areas. Method: Communities living in 20 hotspot and 20 non-hotspot areas in Selangor were chosen in this study where 406 participants were randomly selected to answer questionnaires distributed at their housing areas. Total marks of each categories were compared using t-test. Result: Results show that there were significant mean differences in marks in Knowledge (p value: 0.003; 15.41 vs. 14.55) and Attitude (p value: < 0.001; 11.41 vs. 10.33), but not Practice (p value 0.101; 10.83 vs. 10.47) categories between communities of non-hotspot and hotspot areas. After considering two confounding variables which are education level and household income, different mean marks are found to be significant in Knowledge when education level acts as a covariate and Attitude when both act as covariates. Conclusion: Overall results show that people living in non-hotspot areas had better knowledge and attitude than people living in hotspot areas, but no difference was found in practice. This suggests that public health education should be done more frequently with people with a low education background and low household income, especially in hotspot areas to fight dengue outbreak and make dengue cases decrease effectively. MDPI 2019-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6473475/ /pubmed/30781369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4010037 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ghani, Nurul Akmar Shohaimi, Shamarina Hee, Alvin Kah-Wei Chee, Hui-Yee Emmanuel, Oguntade Alaba Ajibola, Lamidi Sarumoh Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_full | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_fullStr | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_short | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_sort | comparison of knowledge, attitude, and practice among communities living in hotspot and non-hotspot areas of dengue in selangor, malaysia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473475/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30781369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4010037 |
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