Predictors of Tick Exposure Risk-Reduction Behavior in Indiana.

Journal of Community Health
Oghenekaro OmodiorAlec Colón

Abstract

To identify significant predictors of the adoption of more than one tick-exposure and tick-borne disease risk reduction behavior among a cross-section of Indiana residents. Study participants were recruited through quota sampling, before completing an online self-administered questionnaire in Qualtrics. The most adopted tick exposure risk reduction behavior (TERRB) (was 'Walking on established trails and avoiding contact with adjacent vegetation' (83%, n = 2418). This was followed by 'Conducting a thorough check of clothing and the body soon after returning from the outdoors' (81%, n = 2373). The two least adopted TERRBs were,' Treating outdoor clothing with special insect repellent (e.g. Permethrin)' (48%, n = 1409) and 'Wearing appropriate clothing' ('Tucking shirt into pants, and the pants into socks when outdoors') respectively (52%, n = 1524). Study participants who engaged in residential tick control practices (i.e. 'three-foot wide barrier of wood chips/gravel between lawn and woodland', 'yard pesticide application', 'shrub & tree-branch trimming', 'yard fencing', 'fixed time lawn mowing', and 'leaf litter removal') were significantly more likely to adopt nearly all the assessed TERRBs. Higher scores on TERRB efficacy in...Continue Reading

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