Knowledge, attitudes, and practices about dengue among pupils from rural schools in an endemic area in Colombia

• Published in: Biomédica
• Main Authors: Diana Sarmiento-Senior, María Inés Matiz, Juan Felipe Jaramillo-Gómez, Víctor Alberto Olano, Sandra Lucía Vargas, Neal Alexander, Audrey Lenhart, Thor Axel Stenström, Hans Jörgen Overgaard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud 2019
• Subjects: Dengue/prevention & control; health knowledge attitudes practice; rural health; ethnology; Colombia; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Kap
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.4255; https://doaj.org/article/41ed8f776bc7427b98bd6478484c925f

Introduction: Dengue is a public health problem in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Studies on dengue in rural areas are scarce since the disease is considered mainly urban. Objective: To determine the knowledge (K), attitudes (A) and practices (P) of dengue in an endemic area in Colom...