出版社：Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Gujarat
摘要：Mosquito borne diseases are major public health problems in India. Gujarat is endemicfor malaria and other mosquito borne diseases. Anopheles, Aedes and Culex are commonly seenin Gujarat. Therefore the efforts have been consistently made to educate the citizens of State ondanger of mosquito bites. The present study was conducted to assess the awareness and practicesof mosquito bite prevention methods among households of Central Gujarat district Vadodara.Total 311 families have participated in the study from UHTC area of the Medical college. Doorto door visit was conducted to visit the all households. The study was conducted in the month ofJune 2009, which is observed as Anti-Malaria month in Gujarat. The pilot pre-tested structurequestionnaire was used to collect the data. Study respondents were 57% male and 43% female.Almost 99% had knowledge about breeding places of mosquito, but poor knowledge about bitingtime (20%). 71% of participants knew that mosquito bite causes malaria. 39% 0f householdswere using mosquito net as protection against the bite, but only 10% were using insecticidetreated bed net. There is need of increasing use of insecticide treated bed nets and continuousupdating of knowledge about various aspects of mosquito bite
