PMID: 15357933Sep 11, 2004Paper

Evaluation of an educational module on dengue and Aedes aegypti for schoolchildren in Honduras

Revista Panamericana De Salud Pública = Pan American Journal of Public Health
Gustavo Adolfo Avila MontesEduardo Fernández Cerna

Abstract

To evaluate the effectiveness of a special course on environmental health and dengue, given to primary school students and intended to promote behavioral changes in the mothers of those students that would lead to the safe handling of water, adequate disposal of trash, and control of household breeding sites of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito vector for dengue. In the period from April to November 2002 a community field trial was carried out that included four public schools in the city of Comayaguela, Honduras. Two of the schools formed the intervention group, and the two others made up the comparison or control group. The data collection activities before and after the intervention included knowledge tests for the schoolchildren and the teachers; surveys of the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the students' mothers; entomological surveys (systematic checking in order to find water containers, to search for mosquito larvae) in the homes of the schoolchildren; in-depth interviews with the students' mothers; observation in the classrooms; and postintervention focus group with the teachers. During the intervention period the largest epidemic of classical dengue ever in the history of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, occurr...Continue Reading

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Sep 18, 2014·BMC Public Health·Sorayya Kheirouri, Mohammad Alizadeh
Jan 14, 2012·Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases·Lizet SanchezPatrick Van der Stuyft
Oct 5, 2019·Biomédica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud·Diana Sarmiento-SeniorHans Jörgen Overgaard
Mar 17, 2009·Cadernos de saúde pública·Roberto SuárezJuliana Quintero
May 3, 2012·Journal of Vector Ecology : Journal of the Society for Vector Ecology·José A Martínez-IbarraGonzalo Rocha-Chávez
Nov 10, 2013·Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association·José Luis Torres EstradaWillem Takken

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