Factors associated to hotspot of dengue / Nor Farisha Mohamad Krishnan, Nur Azera Ahmad and Nur Shahirah Dollah

Dengue is an illness transmitted by mosquitoes, causing sudden high fever, severe headache, rashes, muscle and joint pain, pain behind the eyes and bleeding in some cases. Generally there are two classification of dengue fever which are dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). In Malaysia, dengue has become a major problem to the country as it lead to the serious dengue fever. The dengue fever is listed as the most prevalent disease in the country with a ratio of 328.3 cases per I 00,000 population The drastically increase of dengue cases happened proved in 2014 make the researchers have more interesting to do a research about the main factors related to dengue cases in 2014. From that, the researcher can identify significant relationship between the available factors like ages, gender, occupation and locality toward hotspot of dengue that can categorize from dengue cases. The locality which the dengue occur even after 30 days of the first dengue case is called as hotspot. Logistic regression was used in order to determine whether there is significant relationship between ages, gender, occupation, locality toward hotspot of dengue (YES, NO). Then the chi square test of independence used to know whether there is an association between gender and hotspot of dengue and also identifying if there is association between age category and hotspot of dengue. The result of the logistic regression showed that only gender does not give significant effect to hotspot of dengue with the percentage of correct classification is 78. 7% the variable while the value for error rate of the model is 21.3%. Based on chi square test of independence, there is association between gender and hotspot of dengue, as well as age category and hotspot of dengue. However both gender and age category showed weak association to hotspot of dengue.