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Biol."],"abstract":"<jats:p>Abstract Dengue fever (DF) is increasingly recognized as one of the world\u2019s major mosquito borne diseases and causes significant morbidity and mortality in tropical and subtropical countries. Dengue fever is endemic in most part of Pakistan and continues to be a public health concern. Knowledge, attitude and practices can play an important role in management of the disease. Current study was aimed to determine the level of knowledge, attitude and practices regarding dengue fever among health practitioners, to study the level of knowledge and attitude with preventive practices for dengue fever. A cross sectional study was carried out in medical practitioners of the four districts of Malakand region during October to November 2019. A pre-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from medical practitioners. Data was analyzed using Graph Pad version 5. Significant value was considered when less than 0.05 (at 95% confidence of interval). The results revealed that most of participants have seen dengue vector (62%), the media being the most quoted source of information. Nearly 81.2% participants were aware from transmission of dengue fever is by mosquito bite. Practices based upon preventive measures were found to be predominantly focused towards prevention of mosquito bites rather than elimination of breeding places. Although the knowledge regarding DF and mosquito control measure was quite high among the medical practitioners but this knowledge was not put into practice. Further studies are required to aware the people about dengue and its vector in order to get prevention and control.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1590\/1519-6984.244966","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,2]],"date-time":"2022-02-02T12:22:12Z","timestamp":1643804532000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Knowledge, attitude and practices regarding dengue and its vector among medical practitioners in Malakand region, Pakistan"],"prefix":"10.1590","volume":"83","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9273-3257","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"W.","family":"Khan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Malakand,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"A.","family":"Rahman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Malakand,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Zaman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Malakand,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Kabir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Sargodha,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"R.","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Malakand,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"W.","family":"Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Malakand,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Ahmad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Malakand,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Shabir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Agriculture University Faisalabad,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Jamil","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Rawalpindi Women University,  Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5056-7003","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"P. 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