TY - JOUR
T1 - Combining two teaching techniques for young children on Aedes aegypti control
T2 - Effects on entomological indices in western Mexico
AU - Martínez-Ibarra, José A.
AU - Nogueda-Torres, Benjamín
AU - Meda-Lara, Rosa M.
AU - Montañez-Valdez, Oziel D.
AU - Rocha-Chávez, Gonzalo
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - A study of the effect of educating four- to six-year-old children in mosquito control was recently conducted in a city in the state of Jalisco, western Mexico. Four neighborhood districts were selected. Children attending one kindergarten in each of two experimental districts were taught mosquito control with a video from the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA), joined to the use of the AMCA Touch Table Technique. The entomological indices monitored in the study decreased significantly (P<0.05) in houses in the experimental districts, apparently because parents acted on the comments and suggestions of the children and eliminated or monitored containers used as oviposition sites by mosquitoes. Based on these results, combining both techniques for teaching children mosquito control is a potentially useful tool for control efforts in Mexico and other places in Latin America.
AB - A study of the effect of educating four- to six-year-old children in mosquito control was recently conducted in a city in the state of Jalisco, western Mexico. Four neighborhood districts were selected. Children attending one kindergarten in each of two experimental districts were taught mosquito control with a video from the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA), joined to the use of the AMCA Touch Table Technique. The entomological indices monitored in the study decreased significantly (P<0.05) in houses in the experimental districts, apparently because parents acted on the comments and suggestions of the children and eliminated or monitored containers used as oviposition sites by mosquitoes. Based on these results, combining both techniques for teaching children mosquito control is a potentially useful tool for control efforts in Mexico and other places in Latin America.
KW - Ae. aegypti control
KW - Community participation
KW - Education
KW - Mexico
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860496472&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1948-7134.2012.00222.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1948-7134.2012.00222.x
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 22548559
AN - SCOPUS:84860496472
SN - 1081-1710
VL - 37
SP - 241
EP - 244
JO - Journal of Vector Ecology
JF - Journal of Vector Ecology
IS - 1
ER -