Wong, Li Ping and Rajandra, Arulvani and Abd Jamil, Juraina and Abu Bakar, Sazaly and Lin, Yulan and Lee, Hai Yen (2023) Effectiveness of dengue awareness calendar on indigenous population: Impact on knowledge, belief and practice. Healthcare, 11 (5). ISSN 2227-9032, DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050637.
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Background: Dengue is prevalent among the indigenous community due to impoverished living conditions near the forest fringe areas and lack of health awareness. The study aims to determine the effect of a dengue awareness calendar on knowledge, belief, and practices (KBP) among the indigenous population. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in nine selected indigenous villages in Selangor, Malaysia. A dengue awareness calendar was distributed to the indigenous communities after pre-intervention. The KBP scores were compared between the pre-and post-intervention. Result: A total of 609 paired responses were obtained. Knowledge, perceived severity, cues to action, self-efficacy, and prevention practices were significantly improved after the intervention (p > 0.00). Participants with primary (Odds Ratio (OR) 2.627; 95% CI 1.338-5.160) and secondary level education (OR 2.263; 95% Cl 1.126-4.550) reported a high increment in practices score. High increments in dengue knowledge scores (OR 2.190; 95% CI 1.521-3.757, p < 0.00) were significantly more likely to report a high increment in practices score. Housewives (OR 0.535; 95% Cl 0.289-0.950), perceived severity (OR 0.349; 95% CI 0.184-0.662), and perceived susceptibility (OR 0.474; 95% CI 0.286-0.785) were significantly less likely to report an increment in prevention practices score. Conclusion: Findings inferred that the dengue awareness calendar significantly improved knowledge and practices. Our findings revealed the effectiveness of the dengue awareness calendar in dengue prevention among indigenous communities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | HICoE, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia Higher Institution Centre of Excellence, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, FP0514D0025-2, MO002-2019, Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Dengue fever; Indigenous community; Knowledge; Belief; Prevention practices |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Social & Preventive Medicine Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre |
| Depositing User: | Ms Zaharah Ramly |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2023 03:42 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2023 03:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/38564 |
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