Makhdoom Bilawal, Ramna Shafique, Rafay Shahab Ansari, Muhammad Arsalan Bashir, Muhammad Amaan Nadeem, Sardar Noman Qayyum, Hussain Haider Shah, Annoushay Tehseen, Lujain Alnemr, Samim Noori
Exploring the Quality of Life (QOL) of medical students in Karachi, Pakistan
BMC medical education
dengue become major health issue tropical regions numbers reported cases estimated infections continuously increase philippines many challenges remain preventing controlling disease amidst mitigation efforts government study sought measure health literacy filipino teachers determine associations among teachers knowledge attitudes selected practices kap dengue elementary secondary school teachers consistently declared dengue hotspots city san fernando pampanga philippines years 2017 2019 selected target participants crosssectional study selfadministered online survey tool used study screening participants kap survey proper stata descriptive statistics multiple logistic regression used data analysis odds ratios ors 95 confidence intervals cis reported study comprised 604 participants whose mean age 384 years television determined top media source information various health staff trusted common source information good knowledge dengue treatment 181 95 ci 118278 dengue prevention 185 95 ci 126271 positively associated good practices protection mosquito bites good knowledge dengue signs symptoms 156 95 ci 102237 dengue prevention 238 95 ci 159358 positively associated good practices preventing breeding sites positive perceived susceptibility dengue lower odds good practices protection mosquito bites 064 95 ci 041099 good practices preventing breeding sites 046 95 ci 026081 even existing dengue policies programs strategies high disease literacy rate filipinos dengue remains struggle increasing case rate therefore specific concepts emphasized interventions finetuned better reach influence target population attain denguefree philippines