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Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea

BACKGROUND: As efforts are currently underway to roll-out insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) to populations within malarious areas in Africa, there is an unprecedented need for data to measure the effectiveness of such programmes in terms of population coverage. This paper examines methodological is...

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Autores principales: Eisele, Thomas P, Macintyre, Kate, Yukich, Josh, Ghebremeskel, Tewolde
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1501030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16677379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-5-36
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author Eisele, Thomas P
Macintyre, Kate
Yukich, Josh
Ghebremeskel, Tewolde
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Macintyre, Kate
Yukich, Josh
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description BACKGROUND: As efforts are currently underway to roll-out insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) to populations within malarious areas in Africa, there is an unprecedented need for data to measure the effectiveness of such programmes in terms of population coverage. This paper examines methodological issues to using household surveys to measure core Roll Back Malaria coverage indicators of ITN possession and use. METHODS: ITN coverage estimates within Anseba and Gash Barka Provinces from the 2002 Eritrean Demographic and Health Survey, implemented just prior to a large-scale ITN distribution programme, are compared to estimates from the same area from a sub-national Bednet Survey implemented 18 months later in 2003 after the roll-out of the ITN programme. RESULTS: Measures of bednet possession were dramatically higher in 2003 compared to 2002. In 2003, 82.2% (95% confidence interval (CI) 77.4–87.0) of households in Anseba and Gash Barka possessed at least one ITN. RBM coverage indicators for ITN use were also dramatically higher in 2003 as compared to 2002, with 76.1% (95% CI 69.9–82.2) of children under five years old and 52.4% (95% CI 38.2–66.6) of pregnant women sleeping under ITNs. The ITN distribution programme resulted in a gross increase in ITN use among children and pregnant women of 68.3% and 48% respectively. CONCLUSION: Eritrea has exceeded the Abuja targets of 60% coverage for ITN household possession and use among children under five years old within two malarious provinces. Results point to several important potential sources of bias that must be considered when interpreting data for ITN coverage over time, including: disparate survey universes and target populations that may include non-malarious areas; poor date recall of bednet procurement and treatment; and differences in timing of surveys with respect to malaria season.
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spelling pubmed-15010302006-07-13 Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea Eisele, Thomas P Macintyre, Kate Yukich, Josh Ghebremeskel, Tewolde Malar J Research BACKGROUND: As efforts are currently underway to roll-out insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) to populations within malarious areas in Africa, there is an unprecedented need for data to measure the effectiveness of such programmes in terms of population coverage. This paper examines methodological issues to using household surveys to measure core Roll Back Malaria coverage indicators of ITN possession and use. METHODS: ITN coverage estimates within Anseba and Gash Barka Provinces from the 2002 Eritrean Demographic and Health Survey, implemented just prior to a large-scale ITN distribution programme, are compared to estimates from the same area from a sub-national Bednet Survey implemented 18 months later in 2003 after the roll-out of the ITN programme. RESULTS: Measures of bednet possession were dramatically higher in 2003 compared to 2002. In 2003, 82.2% (95% confidence interval (CI) 77.4–87.0) of households in Anseba and Gash Barka possessed at least one ITN. RBM coverage indicators for ITN use were also dramatically higher in 2003 as compared to 2002, with 76.1% (95% CI 69.9–82.2) of children under five years old and 52.4% (95% CI 38.2–66.6) of pregnant women sleeping under ITNs. The ITN distribution programme resulted in a gross increase in ITN use among children and pregnant women of 68.3% and 48% respectively. CONCLUSION: Eritrea has exceeded the Abuja targets of 60% coverage for ITN household possession and use among children under five years old within two malarious provinces. Results point to several important potential sources of bias that must be considered when interpreting data for ITN coverage over time, including: disparate survey universes and target populations that may include non-malarious areas; poor date recall of bednet procurement and treatment; and differences in timing of surveys with respect to malaria season. BioMed Central 2006-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC1501030/ /pubmed/16677379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-5-36 Text en Copyright © 2006 Eisele et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yukich, Josh
Ghebremeskel, Tewolde
Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea
title Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea
title_full Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea
title_fullStr Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea
title_full_unstemmed Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea
title_short Interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in Eritrea
title_sort interpreting household survey data intended to measure insecticide-treated bednet coverage: results from two surveys in eritrea
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1501030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16677379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-5-36
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