Exploring the relationships between dengue fever knowledge and breeding in St Catherine Parish, Jamaica: a pilot of enhanced low-cost surveillance.

Purpose: Dengue fever has re-emerged as an increasingly significant global health threat amid diminishing resources pledged for its control in developing nations. Efforts to limit breeding of the dengue vector are often hampered by lack of community awareness of the disease.

Methods: Sixty-eight households in St Catherine Parish, Jamaica completed a pilot knowledge, attitude, and practice questionnaire as part of a routine container survey for presence of larvae.