Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia
Background: Dengue has affected more than one-third of the world population and Malaysia has recorded an increase in the number of dengue cases since 2012. Selangor state recorded the highest number of dengue cases in Malaysia. Most of the dengue infections occur among people living in hotspot areas...
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author | Nurul Akmar Ghani Shamarina Shohaimi Alvin Kah-Wei Hee Hui-Yee Chee Oguntade Emmanuel Lamidi Sarumoh Alaba Ajibola |
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description | Background: Dengue has affected more than one-third of the world population and Malaysia has recorded an increase in the number of dengue cases since 2012. Selangor state recorded the highest number of dengue cases in Malaysia. Most of the dengue infections occur among people living in hotspot areas of dengue. This study aims to compare Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among communities living in hotspot and non-hotspot dengue areas. Method: Communities living in 20 hotspot and 20 non-hotspot areas in Selangor were chosen in this study where 406 participants were randomly selected to answer questionnaires distributed at their housing areas. Total marks of each categories were compared using <i>t</i>-test. Result: Results show that there were significant mean differences in marks in Knowledge (<i>p</i> value: 0.003; 15.41 vs. 14.55) and Attitude (<i>p</i> value: < 0.001; 11.41 vs. 10.33), but not Practice (<i>p</i> value 0.101; 10.83 vs. 10.47) categories between communities of non-hotspot and hotspot areas. After considering two confounding variables which are education level and household income, different mean marks are found to be significant in Knowledge when education level acts as a covariate and Attitude when both act as covariates. Conclusion: Overall results show that people living in non-hotspot areas had better knowledge and attitude than people living in hotspot areas, but no difference was found in practice. This suggests that public health education should be done more frequently with people with a low education background and low household income, especially in hotspot areas to fight dengue outbreak and make dengue cases decrease effectively. |
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spelling | doaj.art-252b005ec28f4a8ca0e3c5ce81dc45df2022-12-22T04:01:02ZengMDPI AGTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease2414-63662019-02-01413710.3390/tropicalmed4010037tropicalmed4010037Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, MalaysiaNurul Akmar Ghani0Shamarina Shohaimi1Alvin Kah-Wei Hee2Hui-Yee Chee3Oguntade Emmanuel4Lamidi Sarumoh Alaba Ajibola5Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaCentre of Foundation Studies for Agricultural Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaInstitute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaBackground: Dengue has affected more than one-third of the world population and Malaysia has recorded an increase in the number of dengue cases since 2012. Selangor state recorded the highest number of dengue cases in Malaysia. Most of the dengue infections occur among people living in hotspot areas of dengue. This study aims to compare Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among communities living in hotspot and non-hotspot dengue areas. Method: Communities living in 20 hotspot and 20 non-hotspot areas in Selangor were chosen in this study where 406 participants were randomly selected to answer questionnaires distributed at their housing areas. Total marks of each categories were compared using <i>t</i>-test. Result: Results show that there were significant mean differences in marks in Knowledge (<i>p</i> value: 0.003; 15.41 vs. 14.55) and Attitude (<i>p</i> value: < 0.001; 11.41 vs. 10.33), but not Practice (<i>p</i> value 0.101; 10.83 vs. 10.47) categories between communities of non-hotspot and hotspot areas. After considering two confounding variables which are education level and household income, different mean marks are found to be significant in Knowledge when education level acts as a covariate and Attitude when both act as covariates. Conclusion: Overall results show that people living in non-hotspot areas had better knowledge and attitude than people living in hotspot areas, but no difference was found in practice. This suggests that public health education should be done more frequently with people with a low education background and low household income, especially in hotspot areas to fight dengue outbreak and make dengue cases decrease effectively.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/4/1/37dengueknowledge attitude practice (KAP)dengue incidencedengue hotspot |
spellingShingle | Nurul Akmar Ghani Shamarina Shohaimi Alvin Kah-Wei Hee Hui-Yee Chee Oguntade Emmanuel Lamidi Sarumoh Alaba Ajibola Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease dengue knowledge attitude practice (KAP) dengue incidence dengue hotspot |
title | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_full | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_fullStr | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_short | Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among Communities Living in Hotspot and Non-Hotspot Areas of Dengue in Selangor, Malaysia |
title_sort | comparison of knowledge attitude and practice among communities living in hotspot and non hotspot areas of dengue in selangor malaysia |
topic | dengue knowledge attitude practice (KAP) dengue incidence dengue hotspot |
url | https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/4/1/37 |
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