A study on awareness about mosquito borne diseases and their preventive measures among pharmacy college students in Telangana, India

Abstract

Background: India is a populous country with many health issues wherein mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) are also a health threatening condition. Aim: To find out the awareness about MBD and preventive measures being used by students of a pharmacy college in Telangana state. Materials and Methods: An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted between July 1st to 31st, 2018 in a pharmacy college in Nalgonda district. 112 students participated in the study and data was collected using predesigned and pretested, semi-structured questionnaire. Statistical Analysis Used: Data was presented in proportions with confidence interval using IBM SPSS Version 20 software (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 20.0. Armonk, NY). Results: The study included 112 study participants with majority (63.4%) of them being males and 75.9% being 17--20 years of age. 87.5% had knowledge that fever was the main symptom of malaria followed chills.(67.8%) Majority of students got their knowledge from internet (89.2%). Conclusions: While knowledge about MBDs and their preventive measures is good, their practice is poor, and the students have to be further educated upon this.

Keywords

• knowledge
• mosquito borne disease
• preventive measures