Knowledge attitudes and practices on school based dengue control programme among year ten students of schools in an urban divisional director of health services area

Abstract

The dengue control practices in the school premises were generally satisfactory in school with an ongoing school dengue control programme. the mosquito control practices were poor. Plastic containers particularly polythine and shopping bags (35.8 per cent) and yoghurt cups (21.5 per cent) acted as the main potential mosquito breeding sites in all the schools under the study