Efetividade de um treinamento de escolares no controle do Aedes aegypti baseado em um sistema web gamificado

Abstract

Mobilization’s effectiveness of students enrolled in an elementary school through coaching based on a gamified web system as support strategy to Aedes aegypti mosquito control was tested. In order to that, 675 students from the municipality of Foz do Iguaçu (“Priest Luigi Salvucci“ school) on the triple border among Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina attended an intervention research fulfilling a checklist of actions to eliminate potential mosquito breeding grounds in their homes during the month of March 2017. Effectiveness was tested in a field survey classifying types of mosquito breeding grounds in 126 households visited before and after that educational intervention, concluding for the necessity of new studies with sample size that considers the index of previous building infestation. Children were trained and received a guide with instructions for each item from the gamified checklist.