Factors Affecting the Role of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Prevention and Control among Village Health Volunteers
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The purpose of this analytic cross-sectional study was to investigate factors affecting the role of dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control among village health volunteers. Of these, 114 samples were enrolled. The data were collected by questionnaire which content validity was checked by experts. Reliability of knowledge and role of dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control were 0.753 and 0.926, respectively. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze. It found that education (5.24; 1.22 to 9.27) and knowledge (12.22; 1.78 to 22.66) on dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control were positively affected the role of dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control among village health volunteers. The study suggested that knowledge related to dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control should be particularly promoted in order to increase the awareness toward role’s health volunteers in health care among people.
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