Awareness and practice about preventive method against mosquito

bite in Gujarat India

Dr. Niraj PanditAssociate Professor

Department of Community MedicineSBKS Medical institute and Research center

Sumandeep VidyapithPiparia, Vadodara

Gujarat

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Background

• Mosquito born diseases are major public health problem in India. Gujarat is endemic for malaria and other mosquito born diseases.

• The National Malaria control programme has been launched in 1952 and it has been renamed as National Vector Born Disease Control Programme in 2003

• Studies have reveled that human knowledge, attitude and practice of various methods of personal and household protection against mosquito bites vary in different endemic regions of tropical countries

Background

• There are many personal protective measures are suggested to prevent mosquito bites. They are mosquito net, screening, repellents, vaporizers and anti mosquito coils. Under National Vector Born Control programme, Government has introduced Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN) for community.

• One of important component of Vector born disease control programme is to impart awareness about mosquito bite prevention in general community. The present study was conducted to assess the awareness and practices of mosquito bites prevention methods among households of Central Gujarat district Vadodara.

Method

• The study was conducted in malaria and dengue endemic urban area of district Vadodara, Central Gujarat.

• It was decided to cover all households of Urban Health Training Center catchment area of department of Communit Medicine, SBKS Medical institute and Research center, Piparia, Dist Vadodara.

Method

• Thus cluster of 311 families were selected to represent the study area. The door to door visit was conducted to visit the all households. The study was conducted in the month of June 2009, which is observed as Anti-Malaria month in state Gujarat.

• Various aspect of mosquito bite, breading places of mosquito, prevention of mosquito bite measures, diseases transmitted by mosquito bite and service utilization for diseases

Results

177

134

Male Feamle

There were 311 families visited for study.The study population consist of 134 female and 177 male who had participated.

Knowledge about breading places

Yes No0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

FemalMale

Correct knowledge about mosquito biting time

Yes No0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

MaleFemale

Knowledge about malaria caused by mosquito bite

Yes No0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

MaleFemale

Knowledge about dengue, chikangunia transmitted by mosquito

Yes No0

20

40

60

80

100

120

MaleFemale

Garbage is the mosquito breading site

Yes No0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

MaleFemale

Current practices against mosquito bites

Mosquito net35%

Mosquito coil48%

Repellent8%

Mosquito killing by racket

4%

Traditional way like burning Neem leaves

4%Mosquito net

Mosquito coil

Repellent

Mosquito killing by racket

Traditional way like burning Neem leaves

Only 30 house holds (9.6%) were aware about insecticide treated bed-net.

Salient issues

• 31.5% (98) of families had history of fever in last one year.

• They all know the blood examination test for malaria parasite.

• The average cost for that fever was 675 Rupee but range was very wide from 35 to 10,000 Rs.

• Only 40/98 (50%) people have received some knowledge about prevention of mosquito bite by their doctor.

Source of knowledge

Television46%

Newspaper-magazine

21%

Radio13%

Friends-relative11%

Hording-banners9%

TelevisionNewspaper-magazineRadioFriends-relativeHording-banners

Conclusion

• The study population has good knowledge about breading places of mosquito but with high fever rate.

• There is need of increasing use of insecticide treated bed net use.

• And continuous updating of knowledge about various aspect of mosquito bite.

Dhiraj Ganeral Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapith, Piparia, Vadodara

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