Nguyen Kim Tien, Huynh Thu Thuy, Luong Chan Quang
A survey on knowledge,
attitude, practice was carried out at 6 sentinel provinces in South of VN (Ca
Mau, Kien Giang, Can Tho,
The results found that:
- About a half of subjects were primary education (48%, 13-74%).
- Their main occupations were farmer (55%, 13-80%).
- 85%-95% of subjects have heard about dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).
- The major sources of DHF information were television (43-81%), radio (8-30%), health workers (11-29%) or the neighbors of DHF cases (9-33%).
- The first health facilities for seeking DHF treatment were commune health centers (36-60%), private health sectors (12-43%) with subjects living in country side but subjects living in urban commonly came to provincial hospitals directly.
- High continuous fever for more than 2 days was suspected DHF by most of subjects (64-76%), but few subjects could identify characteristic of shock (<10%)
- 64-90% of subjects knew that dengue virus was transmitted by the bite of a mosquito.
- Most of people knew that larva lived in water containers without cover (46-78%).
- The methods that subjects selected for mosquito and larva control were as following: mosquito coil (52-63%); mosquito net with Permethrine (6-34%); spraying (10-34%); covered water containers (25-50%); removal of rubbish (9-24%); larva eating fish (2-23%); weekly water containers cleaning (14-44%).
Health education program should be emphasized on the community participation for the breading resource reduction 24 of the mosquito, not on chemical spraying method.