School-based health promotion for mosquito-borne disease prevention in children.
We enrolled 345 fourth-grade students in a classroom-randomized, controlled trial to evaluate a school-based West Nile virus health education program's impact on knowledge, attitudes, and personal protective behavior use. Immediate and sustained improvements in West Nile virus knowledge and greater frequencies of reported personal protective behaviors resulted from the educational intervention.
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. desireelabeaud@yahoo.com
A Desiree
AD
LaBeaud
Allison
A
Glinka
Christopher
C
Kippes
Charles Harding
CH
King
D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D009033:Culicidae; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007302:Insect Repellents; D008297:Male; D011481:Protective Clothing; D012307:Risk Factors; D012572:School Health Services; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*
D007302:Insect Repellents