Abstract:
The recurrence of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) impacts both human health and their economic. To prevent and control the disease is needed the cooperation from all stakeholders in a community. A community based case-control study was conducted which aimed to determine the factors associated with DHF. In-depth interview was used to elicit the information from the key preformats in selected communities from both recurrence and no DHF case reports. A validated questionnaire was used to gather the information from those people who did not have a DHF from no-DHF case report areas, and from those who were diagnosed as DHF from recurrence areas. Chi-square and logistic regression were used to detect the associations between variables at the significant level alpha 0.05.
Results; Twenty key informants from recurrence areas, and another 20 participants from no DHF case report areas participated and obtained the information. Moreover, 213 participants who were diagnosed as DHF from recurrence areas, and 426 participants who were not diagnosed as DHF previous years participated the study. Several factors associated with the recurrence of DHF were the number of public health professional, the advocate of health volunteers, the participation with the public health program from villagers, the low ratio of number public health projects and its budgetary expenses and a population, and the distance of a village. In multivariate analysis found that females had a greater chance to develop DHF than males (OR=2.01, 95%CI=1.41-2.88), and those who graduated high school had a lower chance to develop DHF than those non-education (OR=0.50, 95%CI=0.24-0.99).
Encouraging health prevention and control interventions from all parties in a community which is focusing on male and illiterate populations could reduce the recurrence of DHF ultimately.