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Prevalence, trends and associated factors of malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana

BACKGROUND: Even though malaria is easily preventable and treatable, it continues to have a devastating impact on people’s health and livelihoods around the world. Sub-Saharan Africa carries a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden. This study seeks to assess the prevalence, tren...

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Autores principales: Tetteh, Jessica Ashiakie, Djissem, Patrick Elorm, Manyeh, Alfred Kwesi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10122813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37087510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04561-y
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description BACKGROUND: Even though malaria is easily preventable and treatable, it continues to have a devastating impact on people’s health and livelihoods around the world. Sub-Saharan Africa carries a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden. This study seeks to assess the prevalence, trends and factors associated with malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence, trend, and factors associated with malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital; a 10-month secondary data was extracted from February to November 2020. The extracted data were entered into Epi Data version 6 and analysed using STATA version 16. Descriptive analysis was performed to determine the prevalence, trend and socio-demographic characteristics of study participants. Simple logistic regression at a 95% confidence level was performed to investigate socio-demographic factors associated with malaria infection. Tables and charts with summary statistics were used to present the results. RESULTS: Secondary data from 3896 individuals were included in the study. The age of the participants range from 0.8 to 101 years with a mean age of 32.5. The estimated prevalence of malaria during the study period is 20.9%. A majority (79.1%) of the participants who presented signs and symptoms of malaria were negative after testing. The prevalence of malaria cases increased progressively from 6.7 to 55.4% across the ten months. The simple logistic regression at a 95% confidence level revealed that age group, sex, residential status, religion, occupation and marital status were statistically significantly associated with malaria. The results shows that persons who tested positive for malaria were mostly treated with artemether-lumefantrine (46.1%), some malaria positive cases were given artesunate injection (11.6%), dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (16.2%) and oral artemether-lumefantrine (6.5%). Surprisingly 19.6% of the malaria-positive cases were not given any form of malaria medication. CONCLUSION: Factors found to influence malaria infection in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital include participant’s age, sex, residential status, religious affiliation occupation and marital status. The findings of this study showed that malaria remains a serious public health problem in the Shai Osudoku District Hospital. The information obtained from this study can guide the implementation of malaria prevention, control and elimination strategies in Ghana.
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spelling pubmed-101228132023-04-24 Prevalence, trends and associated factors of malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana Tetteh, Jessica Ashiakie Djissem, Patrick Elorm Manyeh, Alfred Kwesi Malar J Research BACKGROUND: Even though malaria is easily preventable and treatable, it continues to have a devastating impact on people’s health and livelihoods around the world. Sub-Saharan Africa carries a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden. This study seeks to assess the prevalence, trends and factors associated with malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence, trend, and factors associated with malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital; a 10-month secondary data was extracted from February to November 2020. The extracted data were entered into Epi Data version 6 and analysed using STATA version 16. Descriptive analysis was performed to determine the prevalence, trend and socio-demographic characteristics of study participants. Simple logistic regression at a 95% confidence level was performed to investigate socio-demographic factors associated with malaria infection. Tables and charts with summary statistics were used to present the results. RESULTS: Secondary data from 3896 individuals were included in the study. The age of the participants range from 0.8 to 101 years with a mean age of 32.5. The estimated prevalence of malaria during the study period is 20.9%. A majority (79.1%) of the participants who presented signs and symptoms of malaria were negative after testing. The prevalence of malaria cases increased progressively from 6.7 to 55.4% across the ten months. The simple logistic regression at a 95% confidence level revealed that age group, sex, residential status, religion, occupation and marital status were statistically significantly associated with malaria. The results shows that persons who tested positive for malaria were mostly treated with artemether-lumefantrine (46.1%), some malaria positive cases were given artesunate injection (11.6%), dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (16.2%) and oral artemether-lumefantrine (6.5%). Surprisingly 19.6% of the malaria-positive cases were not given any form of malaria medication. CONCLUSION: Factors found to influence malaria infection in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital include participant’s age, sex, residential status, religious affiliation occupation and marital status. The findings of this study showed that malaria remains a serious public health problem in the Shai Osudoku District Hospital. The information obtained from this study can guide the implementation of malaria prevention, control and elimination strategies in Ghana. BioMed Central 2023-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10122813/ /pubmed/37087510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04561-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Manyeh, Alfred Kwesi
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title_full Prevalence, trends and associated factors of malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana
title_fullStr Prevalence, trends and associated factors of malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence, trends and associated factors of malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana
title_short Prevalence, trends and associated factors of malaria in the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Ghana
title_sort prevalence, trends and associated factors of malaria in the shai-osudoku district hospital, ghana
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10122813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37087510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04561-y
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