Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences

Yazarlar: Bhawna pant, Sartaj ahmad, Amit mohan varshney, Arvind k. Shukla, Aditi singh

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DOI:10.21276/apjhs.2014.1.4.17

Anahtar Kelimeler:Dengue,Urban and rural students,Health education

Özet: 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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