Nursing educational intervention in the development of dengue preventive competencies in a vulnerable community based on the Nola Pender model

Abstract

Introduction: It is important asking ourselves how the Aedes Aegypti mosquito constitutes a health problem of the twenty-first century. The Nola Pender model proposes acquiring a commitment for the action plan in health promoting behavior, applicable to the case of dengue.

Objective: To evaluate the nursing educational intervention in the development of dengue preventive competencies at the community of Axixintla, Guerrero, following the Nola Pender model.

Material and Methods: A quantitative analysis was used with quasi-experimental, prospective and longitudinal design. The “Rubric to evaluate competencies in dengue prevention” was validated and applied to 150 participants as a measurement instrument for statistical analysis, and the SPSS statistics V25 was used for Wilcoxon test.

Results: The assessment of general competencies in the rubric evaluation was 50.1% before educational intervention, which is considered as low competencies, and 91.3% after educational intervention, this value is close to high competencies.

Discussion: Previous studies indicate that health education is developed on a low importance level, which constitutes a risk because its role as a basic and fundamental tool for health behavior change could be lost.

Conclusions: The nursing intervention carried out at the community was effective, it is confirmed that dengue preventive competencies of its inhabitants are different before and after the  educational intervention.