Good interventions that few use: uptake of insect bite precautions in a group of Canadian Forces personnel deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan

Military Medicine
Steve SchofieldMartin Tepper

Abstract

We evaluated use of interventions to prevent insect bites in Canadian personnel deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan. Data were collected through a self-report written survey. The response rate was 92%, and intervention uptake was 11% applied repellent that day, 21% slept under a bednet their last sleep, and 78% wore insecticide-treated clothing. Two associations were usually evident in multivariate analyses: persons perceiving risk of exposure as high were more likely to use bednets and repellent, and individuals reminded to use an intervention had higher odds of doing so. However, even if perception of exposure risk was high and reminders were received, the use of bednets (60%) and repellent (40%) was relatively low. Hence, on the one hand, increased uptake of interventions through targeted messaging might be possible. On the other hand, effectiveness of these interventions might be substantially constrained because of nonuse, even in a motivated and informed population.

Citations

Jun 13, 2019·Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical·Karis Maria de Pinho RodriguesGuilherme Santoro-Lopes
Jul 22, 2015·The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene·Berlin Londono-RenteriaSteven R Meshnick

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