Publication: Knowledge, attitude and practice among community in kota bharu, kelantan on dengue fever.
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Date
2015
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Ismail, Zatil Hidayah
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Dengue fever has become serious public health problem in Malaysia. Due to absence of vaccine, the only effective method available is to prevent and control dengue is by preventing transmission of disease. However, the control measure needs support, cooperation and participation from community. A cross sectional study was carried out in two selected places in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. The objectives of this study was conducted to determine association between knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) among community on dengue fever, to identify differences of KAP among community on dengue fever by demographic background and to compare KAP between community in Kampung Pulau Melaka and Kampung Demit Darat. The simple random sampling was used for this study and the number of respondents involved was 175. Each of respondents was interviewed using questionnaires. Overall from this study, it can be concluded that the community in both places had high level of knowledge (63.4%), positive attitude (83.4%) and good level of practice (81.0%) on dengue fever. Television was the common source of information that they get to know about dengue (83.4%). From the result, there were no association between knowledge, attitude and practice on dengue fever (p>0.05). There were significant differences of knowledge on dengue fever between ages of the respondents (p=0.012), between level of education (p=0.002) and between dengue history (p=0.002). There were also have significant differences of knowledge and attitude on dengue fever between community in Kampung Pulau Melaka and Kampung Demit Darat (p=0.001). As for suggestions, the community can plan ‘gotong royong’ program to cut down bushes in their places to minimise the breeding places of Aedes mosquitoes.