Community engagement around scrub typhus in northern Thailand: a pilot project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scrub typhus is highly endemic in northern Thailand yet awareness and knowledge are low. We developed a community engagement project to improve awareness in communities at risk of contracting scrub typhus.

Methods

We conducted a series of engagement sessions with healthcare workers and community health volunteers so they would, in turn, engage with their communities. We evaluated our activities by assessing the increase in scrub typhus knowledge, using a series of Likert-scale items and open-ended questions. Three to 6 months after the sessions, participants were followed up to collect their experiences training community members.

Results

Of 134 participants who took part in eight sessions, 87.3% were community health volunteers. Disease knowledge increased

SUBMITTER: Perrone C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11443339 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature