More than ticking boxes: Training Lyme disease education ambassadors to meet outreach and surveillance challenges in Quebec, Canada.

ABSTRACT: Lyme disease (LD) is an emerging public health threat in Canada, associated with the northward range expansion of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis). To address this, public health authorities have been carrying out surveillance activities and awareness campaigns targeting vulnerable populations such as outdoor workers. Implementing these measures is time-consuming and resource-intensive, prompting the assessment of alternatives. Our goal was to evaluate the feasibility and implementation of a training-of-trainers-inspired approach in raising awareness about LD risk and prevention among workers and general population, as well as to evaluate its potential to contribute to provincial LD surveillance efforts. We trained a group of workers from publicly-accessible outdoor parks of the p

SUBMITTER: Forest-Berard K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8509862 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature