Table 4 Knowledge of parents of school age children towards malaria, Maksegnit, northwestern Ethiopia, June 2022
Variable (respondents) | Category | N (%) |
|---|---|---|
Ever heard about malaria (n鈥�=鈥�394) | Yes | 372(94.4) |
No | 22(5.6) | |
Source of information about malaria (n鈥�=鈥�376) | Community | 27(7.2) |
Public media | 175(46.5) | |
Health worker | 174(46.3) | |
Was any child sick with malaria? (n鈥�=鈥�377) | Yes | 259 (68.7) |
No | 118(31.3) | |
Treatment made for malaria infected child/children (n鈥�=鈥�303) | Traditional healthcare | 34(11.2) |
Modern Healthcare | 269(88.8) | |
Is malaria treatable with drugs? (n鈥�=鈥�376) | Yes | 337(89.6) |
No | 39(10.4) | |
Drug to treat malaria (n鈥�=鈥�192) | Chloroquine | 30(15.6) |
Fansidar | 20(10.4) | |
Quinine | 24(12.5) | |
Coartem | 118(61.5) | |
Is malaria transmissible? (n鈥�=鈥�385) | Yes | 257 (66.8) |
No | 128 (33.2) | |
How is malaria transmitted? (n鈥�=鈥�349) | Body contact with infected person | 37(10.6) |
Through respiratory tract | 40(11.5) | |
Through mosquito bite | 272(77.9) | |
Mosquito breeding habitat (n鈥�=鈥�254) | Water | 220(86.6) |
Other | 11(4.3) | |
Living area | 23(9.1) | |
Is malaria preventable? (n鈥�=鈥�382) | Yes | 349(91.4) |
No | 33(8.6) | |
How is malaria prevented? (n鈥�=鈥�382) | IRS/LLINs | 35(10.2) |
Tablet | 126(36.8) | |
Environmental management | 181(52.9) | |
Why do you use the above prevention method? (n鈥�=鈥�380) | Low cost | 89(23.4) |
Available | 87(22.8) | |
Effective | 151(39.7) | |
Safe | 53(13.9) | |
Why don鈥檛 sleep under LLIN? (n鈥�=鈥�219) | Do not have | 206(94.1) |
Not comfortable | 4(1.8) | |
Not effective | 9(4.1) |