Home⇛World Education Connect Multidisciplinary E-Publication⇛vol. 4 no. 1 (2024)

DENGUE FEVER (DF) PREVENTIVE AWARENESS: THE URBAN RESIDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND PRACTICES (KAP)

Mart R. Manalo

Discipline: Community Nursing

 

Abstract:

This study assessed the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) of dengue fever preventive awareness in one of the barangays in Pagadian City. A purposive random sampling was utilized in this study and the respondents were selected from the identified total household population in one of the barangays in Pagadian City. Correlations between scores were established in this study. On the other hand, Arithmetic Mean and Pearson Product – Coefficient of Correlation was used to analyze the data on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) in this study. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is used as treatment of the data gathered in establishing the significant difference between Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP). The result revealed that the level of Dengue Fever (DF) preventive awareness among households in terms of knowledge and attitude fall under “agree”, this implies that the respondents have a good knowledge and attitude in terms of dengue fever preventive awareness whereas, the practices fall under “frequently”, which implies that in general the respondents are frequently doing a good practices in terms of dengue fever preventive awareness. Result of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), revealed the significant values of 0.000, where p < 0.05. This implies that the awareness of dengue fever preventive of urban knowledge, attitude, and practices among households in one of the barangays in Pagadian City, vary significantly.



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