School-based health promotion for mosquito-borne disease prevention in children.

Full Abstract

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.

Author information

Author/s: LaBeaud, A Desiree (AD); Glinka, Allison (A); Kippes, Christopher (C); King, Charles Harding (CH);

Affiliation: Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. desireelabeaud(-atsign-)yahoo.com

Grants: 1KL2RR024990 (Agency:NCRR NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Journal: The Journal of pediatrics (J Pediatr), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Oct; vol 155 (issue 4) : pp 590-2

Dates: Created 2009/09/23; Completed 2009/10/22;

PMID: 19773005, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/22/2009, IMS Date: )

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