TY  - JOUR
A1  - Harapan, Harapan
A1  - Rajamoorthy, Yogambigai
A1  - Anwar, Samsul
A1  - Bustamam, Aslam
A1  - Radiansyah, Arsil
A1  - Angraini, Pradiba
A1  - Fasli, Riny
A1  - Salwiyadi, Salwiyadi
A1  - Bastian, Reza Akbar
A1  - Oktiviyari, Ade
A1  - Akmal, Imaduddin
A1  - Iqbalamin, Muhammad
A1  - Adil, Jamalul
A1  - Henrizal, Fenni
A1  - Darmayanti, Darmayanti
A1  - Pratama, Rovy
A1  - Setiawan, Abdul Malik
A1  - Mudatsir, Mudatsir
A1  - Hadisoemarto, Panji Fortuna
A1  - Dhimal, Mandira Lamichhane
A1  - Kuch, Ulrich
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Imrie, Allison
A1  - Dhimal, Meghnath
A1  - Müller, Ruth
T1  - Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding dengue virus infection among inhabitants of Aceh, Indonesia : a cross-sectional study
T2  - BMC infectious diseases
N2  - Background: The Indonesian region of Aceh was the area most severely affected by the earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004. Department of Health data reveal an upward trend of dengue cases in Aceh since the events of the tsunami. Despite the increasing incidence of dengue in the region, there is limited understanding of dengue among the general population of Aceh. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding dengue among the people of Aceh, Indonesia in order to design intervention strategies for an effective dengue prevention program.
Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Aceh between November 2014 and March 2015 with a total of 609 participants living in seven regencies and two municipalities. Information on the socio-demographic characteristics of participants and their KAP regarding dengue was collected using a pre-tested structured questionnaire. The KAP status (good vs. poor) of participants with different socio-demographic characteristics was compared using Chi Square-test, ANOVA or Fisher’s exact test as appropriate. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the predictors of each KAP domain.
Results: We found that 45% of participants had good knowledge regarding dengue and only 32% had good attitudes and good dengue preventive practices. There was a significant positive correlation between knowledge and attitudes, knowledge and practice, and attitudes and practice. In addition, people who had good knowledge were 2.7 times more likely to have good attitudes, and people who had good attitudes were 2.2 times more likely to have good practices regarding dengue. The level of education, occupation, marital status, monthly income, socioeconomic status (SES) and living in the city were associated with the knowledge level. Occupation, SES, and having experienced dengue fever were associated with attitudes. Education, occupation, SES and type of residence were associated with preventive practices.
Conclusion: Our study suggests that dengue prevention programs are required to increase KAP levels regarding dengue in the communities of Aceh.
KW  - Dengue
KW  - Dengue fever
KW  - Knowledge
KW  - Attitude
KW  - Practice
KW  - KAP
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46493
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-464938
SN  - 1471-2334
N1  - Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 18
IS  - 1, Art. 96
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
PB  - BioMed Central ; Springer
CY  - London ; Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -