Assessing Community-Based Tick Control for LD Mitigation

评估基于社区的蜱虫控制以缓解 LD

• 批准号: 7053416
• 负责人: Thomas N Mather
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7053416
• 关键词: Lyme disease; Ungulate; animal population study; arthropod nonpollutant control; behavioral /social science research tag; chemoprevention; clinical research; communicable disease control; community; cooperative study; data collection; disease vectors; drug screening /evaluation; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; health behavior; health education; health surveys; human subject; insect control; insecticides; medical records; public opinion; questionnaires; ticks

HealthyPeople2010 established a goal of reducing Lyme diseaseto 9.7 cases per 100,000 residents within the next six years. Sincet ick abundance is positively correlated with disease incidence in Rhode Island,where statewide disease incidence rates average>51 per 100,000 residents, there clearly is an immediate need for effective disease mitigation measures including tick reduction interventions. Numerous tick control strategies for disease prevention have been developed ;many have been evaluated, at least to some degree but few have been implemented widely or in a coordinated manner. Moreover, there may be strong experimental evidence indicating the effectiveness of a particular intervention, but its efficacy under actual application circumstances may be limited or unknown. To date, there have been nostudies that measure actual effectiveness in reducing Lyme disease incidence at the population level. It is our hypothesis that for interventions to be effective, it wil lbe necessary to increase public knowledge and proper implementation of tick control strategies, or use strategies that require less participation of the public at risk. To evaluate this, we propose to: 1) assess and evaluate tick control attitudes and practices before and after implementing an aggressive, interactive community outreach program for tick control; 2) implement a community-wide 4-poster tick control program and evaluate its effectiveness for disease prevention; and 3) assist 4-poster technology transfer by developing a comprehensive manual detailing implementation of a municipal 4-poster tick control program. This project will be the first to test whether area-wide tick control efforts result in reduced disease incidence. Its innovation lies in the fact that tick biologists will use interactive techniques and be active participants in municipal and homeowner tick control programming. Efforts will focus on identifying strategiesfor engaging the community and individuals at risk.

2010年健康人群计划确立了将莱姆病发病率降低到每10万居民9.7例的目标