Effects of behavioral prevention and control of dengue fever in family health volunteer leaders

Abstract

This research was a quasi-experimental research aimed to study effectiveness of behavior modification to knowledge, health believe about behavioral prevention and control of dengue fever and prevalence of mosquitolarva index among key performances of health volunteers in family. The participants were recruited from 78 samples and randomized by simple random sampling in Moo 1 BanPakuay Tambol Tachai, Srisachanalai Distric, Sukhothai Province. Samples were divided to experimental and control group. Data were collected by effectiveness of behavior modification to knowledge, health believe about behavioral prevention and control of dengue fever and the prevalence of mosquito larva index, including of three activities 1) Lecture of dengue.fever.; 2) Group discussion from former dengue patients ;3) Innovation about dengue fever by principal investigator and leader of health volunteers' home visit regarding mosquito larva as well as health education for prevention and control of dengue fever. Analysis was utilized by mean, percentage, standard deviation, pair t and independent samples T-test. The result showed that mean score of knowledge, perceived of health risk behaviors, perceived severity of illness and perceived barriers to prevention of dengue in the control group are better than the compare group significantly (p < 0.001); whereas there is no significant differ in mean score of perceived benefits of dengue prevention. The prevalence of of mosquito larva index in control group is lower than compare group significantly (p<0.001).