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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 50(4), 1994, pp. 401-411
Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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The Design of a Community-Based Health Education Intervention for the Control of Aedes aegypti

Linda S. Lloyd, Peter Winch, Judith Ortega-Canto AND Carl Kendall
Center for International Community-Based Health Research, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Social Medicine, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico; Department of International Health and Development, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

This report describes the process used to develop locally appropriate educational materials and to implement the education component of a community-based Aedes aegypti control program in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. The process is broken into five stages: formative research, developing recommendations for behavior change, development of educational messages, development and production of educational materials, and distribution of the materials. Appropriate terminology and taxonomies for dengue were obtained from open in-depth interviews; baseline data from a knowledge, beliefs, and practices questionnaire served to confirm this information. A larval survey of house lots was carried out to identify the Ae. aegypti larval production sites found on individual house lots. This enabled the program to target the most important larval habitats. Community groups were organized to work on the development of messages and production of the educational materials to be used. The education intervention was successful in stimulating changes in both knowledge and behavior, which were measured in the evaluations of the intervention. To be successful, community-based strategies must be flexible and adapted to the local setting because of ecologic, cultural, and social differences between localities.




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