THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND ATTITUDES OF ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE FAMILIES TOWARDS QUESTIONS OF TICK-BORNE DISEASES

Bachelor´s work deals with the questions of 2 most frequent tick - borne diseases in the Central Europe - Tick Borne Encephalitis and Lyme Disease. The purpose of my work is to survey the awareness of České Budějovice families about these diseases and possibilities of their prevention. For the primary data collection the technique of questionnaire has been chosen. As the target group pupils of higher classes of basic schools and their parents have been chosen. From 110 distributed sets of questionnaires only 63 have been processed. After the evaluation of these questionnaires, both my hypotheses have been disproved. The awareness of parents was better than the awareness of pupils, but the difference was very small. České Budějovice families know that the risk of Tick Borne Encephalitis in the region of South Bohemia is higher than in other regions in our country. The level of awareness of České Budějovice families about questions of tick {--} borne diseases is quite good