The Study Of The Knowledge, Attitude, And Practice About The Air Pollution Among The Residents Of Kolar Town Of South India
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/00xk0q69Keywords:
Environment,Air pollution,Knowledge, Attitude,Practice.Abstract
Introduction: Air pollution is a major environmental health problem affecting everyone.Few studies have revealed the specific needs of the residents; hence the thought demand for residents to the knowledge of air pollution information was explored using a questionnaire.
Aims and objective: To develop awareness and understanding of pollution hazards and their prevention among the Kolar population on air pollution by using a questionnaire.
Materials and methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted among 120 subjects in Kolar town by Purposive sampling technique with a validated, standard questionnaire by interview method and collectedwasanalysedby SPSS version 20.
Results:Majoritygainedknowledge on air pollution from mobile phones and television, Whilea few said from the public and newspapers. Regarding attitude, 91% agreed that air pollution affected their health and the environment, with 116 (96.7%) 106 (88.3%) saying it from outdoor and indoor activities respectively.Statistically significant association was established between knowledge gained among educators with (P=0.004) and attitude toward outdoor air pollution with (P=0.001) and changes in behavioural patterns with (P=0.042).
Conclusion: This work served as a starting point for a more timely and complete survey on air pollution and its relation to health and economic growth.
References
(1)Lelieveld J, Evans JS, Fnais M, Giannadaki D, Pozzer A. The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale. Nature 2015; 525: 367-71.
(2)WHO. Air pollution. https://www.who.int/health-topics/airpollution #tab=tab_1 (accessed Dec 11, 2020).
(3)Bhandari A A, Gautam R, Shiva Bhandari S. Knowledge and Practice on Prevention of Respiratory Health Problems among Traffic Police in Kathmandu, Nepal. International Scholarly Research Notice. 2015;1-7.
(4) Landrigan PJ, Fuller R. Global health and environmental pollution. Int J Public Health. 2015;60(7):1-2.
(5)Shanmuga priya D, Reddy R, N, Ranganath ST, Perception of Air pollution Health Hazards among roadside shop keepers in Selected areas of Bangalore city -cross-section study.National Journal of Community Medicine. 2017;8:641-44.
(6)Guttikunda SK, Goel R, Pant P. Nature of air pollution, emission sources, and management in the Indian cities. Atmos Environ 2014; 95: 501-10.
(7)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. SAFAR-high resolution emission inventory of Delhi mega city—2018 (SAFAR-Delhi-2018-A). Pune: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, 2018.
(8)Balakrishnan K, Sankar S, Parikh J, et al. Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India. Environ Health Perspect 2002; 110: 1069-75.
(9)Arku RE, Birch A, Shupler M, Yusuf S, Hystad P, Brauer M. Characterizing exposure to household air pollution within the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study. Environ Int2018; 114: 307-17.
(10)Odunkor.S.T, Mahami .T, Knowledge , attitude, and perception of air pollution in Accra Ghana: A critical survey. Journal of Environmental and Public Health.2020;1:1-11. 3.
(11)Qian X, G. Xu, L. Li et al., “Knowledge and perceptions of air pollution in Ningbo, China” BMC Public Health, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 1138, 2016.
(12)Wakefield SE, Elliott SJ, Eyles JD, Cole DC. Taking environmental action:The role of local composition, context, and collective. Environ. Manage. 2006; 37:40-53.
(13) Bell MLO, Neill MS, Cifuentes LA, Braga ALF, Green C, Nweke A et al. Challenges and recommendations for the study of socioeconomic factors and air pollution health effects. Environ. Sci. Policy.2005;8:525-33.
(14)Egondi T, Kyobutungi C, NawiN, MuindiK, OtiS,Vijyer S et al. Community perceptions of air pollution and related health risks in Nairobi slums.Int. J. Environ Res Public Health. 2013; 10:4851-68.
(15)Wang R, Yang Y, Chen R, Kan H, Wu J, Wang K, Maddock JE, Lu Y. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of the relationship between air pollution and children's respiratory health in Shanghai, China. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015;12(2):1834-48.
(16)M.-A. Kioumourtzoglou, R. Raz, A. Wilson, et al., "Traffic-related air pollution and pregnancy loss,"Epidemiology, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 4-10, 2019.
(17) Parida P, Gosh D. Air pollution and India: Current Scenario.International Journal of Current Research.2015;7(11):22194-96.
(18)Qiu F, Wang E, Fan M, Liao H , Wan L, Huang Z, etal. A Questionnaire Case Study of Chinese Opinions on the Haze Pollution and Economic Growth. Sustainability. 2018; 10:1-30.
(19)Balakrishnan K, Ghosh S, Ganguli B, Sambandam S, Bruce N, Barnes DF, Smith KR, 2013 State and national household concentrations of PM2.5 from solid cookfuel use: results from measurements 77.
(20)Qian X, Xu G, Li L , Shen Y, He T, Liang Y, etal . knowledge and perception of air pollution in Ningbo China. Journal Biomed Central. 2016;16:1-7.
(21) Kurata M, Takahashi K, Hibiki A Gender differences in associations of household and ambient air pollution with child health Evidence from household and satellite-baseddata in Bangladesh. World Development. 2020;1-15.
(22) Carducci A, Donzelli G, Cioni L, Palomb G, Verani M, Mascagni G, et al. Air pollution: a study of citizen's attitudes and behaviours using different information sources. Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health .2017; 14: (2) 1-9.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en