Abstract
The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has been rapidly spreading throughout Latin America, utilizing pre-existing vectors to infiltrate the immunologically naïve populations. With the current rise of the Zika Virus, there is an urgent need for more rigorous vector control efforts to prevent further Zika breakout. We designed a school-based education module on CHIKV and mosquito prevention and presented it to the local students of ages of 6-18 in a rural town called Sudzal in Yucatan, Mexico. We distributed questionnaires before and after education to test the students’ knowledge of CHIKV and mosquito prevention. Chi-squared test was performed to determine the efficacy of the presentation in increasing their knowledge. The education presentation has proven to effectively educate the local residents in several critical methods of mosquito prevention, increasing the average test scores by 67% post-education. These include applying repellent, staying hydrated during recuperation, and cleaning indoor water containers to eliminate breeding sites (P<0.001). Furthermore, the questionnaire captured the residents’ behavioral patterns regarding CHIKV and mosquito prevention and identified cultural, ecological, and socioeconomic factors hindering effective implementation of vector control.
Highlights
Virus, there is an urgent need for more rign orous vector control efforts to prevent furo ther Zika breakout
As Yucatan is inhabited primarily by descendants of indigenous Mayan population, almost all of Sudzal population is of Mayan descent
In 2010, SEDESOL (Mexico’s Secretary of Social Development) reported that as a marginalized rural town in one of the poorest states in Mexico, 42.3% of the Sudzal population is under moderate poverty, while another 27.9% is under extreme poverty.12 14.7% of the population is without access to health care services, while 88.4% have scarce access to social security
Summary
Several areas of potential improveprograms by decentralizing the educational ment were identified from formative materials to take into account the ecologi- research, and specific recommendations cal, social, and cultural aspects of the spely cific community Her community-based education study in 1992 has proven effecn tive in changing residents’ behaviors in o household larval production site elimination practices.[21] To effectively educate the come munity in CHIKV and mosquito prevention s and illicit higher locus of health control that will induce behavioral change, u this project has three goals: l i) Educate the community in the CHIKV ia and mosquito borne illness prevention through community-based education rc module to increase their personal locus e of control. For those who do not wear long sleeve clothes for vector prevention, the two main reasons
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