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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Development of an educational cartoon to prevent worm infections in chinese schoolchildren
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, Volume 2, No. 1, Article 29, Year 2013
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Background: With more than two billion people infected worldwide, soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are the most widespread infections. To date, STH control efforts rely predominantly on recurrent mass drug administration (MDA), which does not prevent reinfection. Additional public health measures including novel health educational tools are required for more sustained integrated control of STH. We describe the development of an educational cartoon video (The Magic Glasses) targeting STH infections in Chinese schoolchildren and its pilot testing in China. We applied an extensive community-based mixed methods approach involving input from the target group of 9-10 year old schoolchildren and key informants, such as teachers, doctors and parents, in order to identify potential STH infection risks in the study area and to formulate key messages for the cartoon. The development of the educational cartoon included three major steps: formative research, production, and pilot testing and revision. Results: We found that most adults and approximately 50% of the schoolchildren were aware of roundworm (Ascaris) infection, but knowledge of transmission, prevention and treatment of STH was poor. Observations in the study area showed that unhygienic food practices, such as eating raw and unwashed fruit or playing in vegetable gardens previously fertilised with human faeces, posed major STH infection risks. Conclusions: It was crucial to assess the intellectual, emotional, social and cultural background of the target population prior to video production in order to integrate the key messages of the cartoon into everyday situations. Overall, our strategy for the development of the cartoon and its incorporation into a health education package proved successful, and we provide a summary of recommendations for the development of future educational videos based on our experiences in China. © 2013 Bieri et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Bieri, Franziska Angly
Australia, Brisbane
Qimr Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Yuan, Liping
China, Yueyang
Hunan Institute of Parasitic Disease
Li, Yuesheng
Australia, Brisbane
Qimr Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
China, Yueyang
Hunan Institute of Parasitic Disease
He, Yongkang
China, Yueyang
Hunan Institute of Parasitic Disease
Bedford, Andrew
Australia, Brisbane
Andrew Bedford Creative Services
Li, Robert S.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Guo, Fengying
China, Yueyang
Hunan Institute of Parasitic Disease
Li, Shengming
China, Yueyang
Hunan Institute of Parasitic Disease
Williams, Gail M.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
McManus, Donald Peter
Australia, Brisbane
Qimr Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Raso, Giovanna
Switzerland, Allschwil
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Swiss Tph
Cote D'ivoire, Abidjan
Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques Abidjan
Gray, Darren J.
Australia, Brisbane
Qimr Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Statistics
Citations: 32
Authors: 12
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/2049-9957-2-29
e-ISSN:
20499957
Research Areas
Food Security
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Exploratory Study
Study Approach
Mixed-methods