TY  - JOUR
A1  - Harapan, Harapan
A1  - Anwar, Samsul
A1  - Bustaman, 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  - Fajar, Jonny Karunia
A1  - Setiawan, Abdul Malik
A1  - Imrie, Allison
A1  - Kuch, Ulrich
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Sasmono, R. Tedjo
A1  - Dhimal, Meghnath
A1  - Müller, Ruth
T1  - Community willingness to participate in a dengue study in Aceh province, Indonesia
T2  - PLoS One
N2  - Background: Dengue virus infection is the most rapidly spreading vector-borne disease in the world. Essential research on dengue virus transmission and its prevention requires community participation. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the factors that are associated with the willingness of communities in high prevalence areas to participate in dengue research. The aim of this study was to explore factors associated with the willingness of healthy community members in Aceh province, Indonesia, to participate in dengue research that would require phlebotomy.
Methodology/Principal Findings: A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out in nine regencies and municipalities of Aceh from November 2014 to March 2015. Interviews using a set of validated questionnaires were conducted to collect data on demography, history of dengue infection, socioeconomic status, and knowledge, attitude and practice regarding dengue fever. Two-step logistic regression and Spearman’s rank correlation (rs) analysis were used to assess the influence of independent variables on dependent variables. Among 535 participants, less than 20% had a good willingness to participate in the dengue study. The factors associated with good willingness to participate were being female, working as a civil servant, private employee or entrepreneur, having a high socioeconomic status and good knowledge, attitude and practice regarding dengue. Good knowledge and attitude regarding dengue were positive independent predictors of willingness to participate (OR: 2.30 [95% CI: 1.36–3.90] and 3.73 [95% CI: 2.24–6.21], respectively).
Conclusion/Significance: The willingness to participate in dengue research is very low among community members in Aceh, and the two most important associated factors are knowledge and attitude regarding dengue. To increase participation rate, efforts to improve the knowledge and attitude of community members regarding dengue fever and dengue-related research is required before such studies are launched.
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41452
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-414527
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2016 Harapan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 11
IS  - (7): e0159139
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -