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Emerg Infect Dis ; 24(12): 2251-2261, 2018 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30457546

RESUMO

We assessed how community education efforts influenced pregnant women's Zika prevention behaviors during the 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Puerto Rico Department of Health Zika virus response. Efforts included Zika virus training, distribution of Zika prevention kits, a mass media campaign, and free home mosquito spraying. We used telephone interview data from pregnant women participating in Puerto Rico's Women, Infants, and Children Program to test associations between program participation and Zika prevention behaviors. Behavior percentages ranged from 4% (wearing long-sleeved shirt) to 90% (removing standing water). Appropriate mosquito repellent use (28%) and condom use (44%) were common. Receiving a Zika prevention kit was significantly associated with larvicide application (odds ratio [OR] 8.0) and bed net use (OR 3.1), suggesting the kit's importance for lesser-known behaviors. Offer of free residential spraying was associated with spraying home for mosquitoes (OR 13.1), indicating that women supported home spraying when barriers were removed.


Assuntos
Complicações Infecciosas na Gravidez , Saúde Pública , Infecção por Zika virus/epidemiologia , Infecção por Zika virus/prevenção & controle , Zika virus , Adulto , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde , História do Século XXI , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Gravidez , Vigilância em Saúde Pública , Porto Rico/epidemiologia , Infecção por Zika virus/história
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MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep ; 66(34): 909-913, 2017 Sep 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28859049

RESUMO

As of May 2, 2017, the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), comprising St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, had reported 1,021 probable or confirmed cases* of Zika virus disease in its population of approximately 100,000 (1); 222 symptomatic and asymptomatic pregnant women in the USVI had tested positive for Zika virus. In January 2016, USVI Department of Health (USVI DOH) initiated Zika response measures, including surveillance, vector control, and a communications program. Interventions included education and outreach, distribution of Zika prevention kits† to pregnant women in the USVI, and provision of free Zika virus laboratory testing and vector control services. In November 2016, USVI DOH staff members conducted interviews with convenience samples of community members and pregnant women to gather feedback about current and proposed interventions (2). Pregnant women reported taking a median of two actions to protect themselves from Zika, with repellent use being the most commonly reported action. Community members reported taking a median of one action and were supportive of several proposed vector control approaches. Whereas multiple pregnant women and community members reported hearing messages about the cause and consequences of Zika virus infections, few recalled messages about specific actions they could take to protect themselves. Integrating evaluation into response measures permits ongoing assessment of intervention effectiveness and supports improvement to serve the population's needs.


Assuntos
Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Complicações Infecciosas na Gravidez/prevenção & controle , Gestantes/psicologia , Infecção por Zika virus/prevenção & controle , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Repelentes de Insetos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Controle de Mosquitos , Gravidez , Ilhas Virgens Americanas , Adulto Jovem
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J Health Commun ; 12(8): 733-57, 2007 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18030639

RESUMO

Neural tube defects (NTDs) are serious birth defects of the brain and spine that affect approximately 3,000 pregnancies in the United States each year and affected 404 pregnancies in Puerto Rico from 1996 to 2002. Consuming the B vitamin folic acid can reduce the incidence of NTDs 50%-70%, and recent efforts to reduce NTD rates have focused on increasing the number of childbearing-aged women who take a vitamin containing folic acid every day. As the first stage of formative research in campaign planning, two exploratory, qualitative studies were conducted in order to (a) understand the complexity of vitamin use among women in the United States and Puerto Rico and (b) serve as a foundation on which to develop national communication and education interventions. Also, this information shed light on theories that might be used to guide campaign development. Results indicated that campaign messages designed to increase folic acid use through multivitamin supplementation in the United States must address women's barriers to vitamin use (e.g., cost, time), increase women's perceived need for multivitamins (e.g., identify immediate, tangible results from taking a daily multivitamin), and address the relationship between daily food choices and the need for supplementation. Future campaign messages in Puerto Rico must focus on many of these same issues, in addition to increasing women's knowledge about when folic acid should be taken in relation to pregnancy and addressing women's perceptions that vitamins cause weight gain (an undesirable outcome for most participants). The practical and theoretical implications of these results are discussed in terms of their contribution to the development of a creative new approach to increase multivitamin consumption among women of childbearing age in the United States and Puerto Rico.


Assuntos
Atitude Frente a Saúde , Ácido Fólico/uso terapêutico , Defeitos do Tubo Neural/prevenção & controle , Fenômenos Fisiológicos da Nutrição Pré-Natal , Vitaminas/administração & dosagem , Adolescente , Adulto , Feminino , Grupos Focais , Educação em Saúde , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Defeitos do Tubo Neural/epidemiologia , Gravidez , Porto Rico/epidemiologia , Estados Unidos/epidemiologia , Vitaminas/economia
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