A household-based survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices towards dengue fever among local urban communities in Taiz Governorate, Yemen

Alyousefi TA 1 , Abdul-Ghani R 2 , Mahdy MA 3 , Al-Eryani SM 2 , Al-Mekhlafi AM 2 , Raja YA 4 Show all authors , Shah SA 5 , Beier JC 6

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Al-Razi University, Sana'a, Yemen
  • 2 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
  • 3 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen. [email protected]
  • 4 Faculty of Public Health and Informatics, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • 5 Department of Community Health, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 6 Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
BMC Infect Dis, 2016 Oct 7;16(1):543.
PMID: 27717333

Abstract

Yemen has witnessed several dengue fever outbreaks coincident with the social unrest and war in the country. The aim of the present study was to describe the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) of at-risk urban populations residing in Taiz, southwest of Yemen. In addition, factors possibly associated with poor preventive practices were investigated.

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