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Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire

BACKGROUND: To improve effectiveness of malaria control interventions, it is essential to deepen the knowledge of contextual factors that govern people's practice for preventive and curative measures. The aim of this study was to determine factors that influence the use of long-lasting insectic...

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Autores principales: Ouattara, Allassane F, Raso, Giovanna, Edi, Constant VA, Utzinger, Jürg, Tanner, Marcel, Dagnogo, Mamadou, Koudou, Benjamin G
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21970433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-288
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author Ouattara, Allassane F
Raso, Giovanna
Edi, Constant VA
Utzinger, Jürg
Tanner, Marcel
Dagnogo, Mamadou
Koudou, Benjamin G
author_facet Ouattara, Allassane F
Raso, Giovanna
Edi, Constant VA
Utzinger, Jürg
Tanner, Marcel
Dagnogo, Mamadou
Koudou, Benjamin G
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description BACKGROUND: To improve effectiveness of malaria control interventions, it is essential to deepen the knowledge of contextual factors that govern people's practice for preventive and curative measures. The aim of this study was to determine factors that influence the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in three rural communities of Côte d'Ivoire, two of which benefited from recent interventions. METHODS: The study was carried out in 957 households in three villages (Bozi, N'Dakonankro and Yoho) located in central Côte d'Ivoire. Indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP), malaria knowledge and practice, placing special emphasis on LLINs, were investigated during a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Principal component analysis was used to calculate the SEP of households by means of a list of household assets ownership. The concentration index was used to assess the direction of the association between SEP and a given variable. To compare groups or means, Fisher's exact test, χ(2 )and Kruskal-Wallis test were used, as appropriate. RESULTS: Significant differences were found between SEP and reported malaria symptoms, such as fever or hot body, convulsion, anaemia and jaundice (yellow eyes). Individuals from the least poor group cited more often the use of bed nets and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) compared to poorer groups. The mean number of individuals reporting the use of bed nets and LLINs was different between groups with different educational level. Moreover, the mean number of LLINs in a household was influenced by the presence of children below five years of age. CONCLUSION: The study not only confirmed that education and SEP play important roles in the prevention and control of malaria and promotion of health in general, but pointed at the basic essential knowledge and the key behavioural elements that should guide education and learning processes among the poorer segments of the population. In turn, such knowledge may change behaviour and lead to an increased utilization of LLINs.
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spelling pubmed-31969302011-10-20 Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire Ouattara, Allassane F Raso, Giovanna Edi, Constant VA Utzinger, Jürg Tanner, Marcel Dagnogo, Mamadou Koudou, Benjamin G Malar J Research BACKGROUND: To improve effectiveness of malaria control interventions, it is essential to deepen the knowledge of contextual factors that govern people's practice for preventive and curative measures. The aim of this study was to determine factors that influence the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in three rural communities of Côte d'Ivoire, two of which benefited from recent interventions. METHODS: The study was carried out in 957 households in three villages (Bozi, N'Dakonankro and Yoho) located in central Côte d'Ivoire. Indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP), malaria knowledge and practice, placing special emphasis on LLINs, were investigated during a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Principal component analysis was used to calculate the SEP of households by means of a list of household assets ownership. The concentration index was used to assess the direction of the association between SEP and a given variable. To compare groups or means, Fisher's exact test, χ(2 )and Kruskal-Wallis test were used, as appropriate. RESULTS: Significant differences were found between SEP and reported malaria symptoms, such as fever or hot body, convulsion, anaemia and jaundice (yellow eyes). Individuals from the least poor group cited more often the use of bed nets and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) compared to poorer groups. The mean number of individuals reporting the use of bed nets and LLINs was different between groups with different educational level. Moreover, the mean number of LLINs in a household was influenced by the presence of children below five years of age. CONCLUSION: The study not only confirmed that education and SEP play important roles in the prevention and control of malaria and promotion of health in general, but pointed at the basic essential knowledge and the key behavioural elements that should guide education and learning processes among the poorer segments of the population. In turn, such knowledge may change behaviour and lead to an increased utilization of LLINs. BioMed Central 2011-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3196930/ /pubmed/21970433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-288 Text en Copyright ©2011 Ouattara 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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Ouattara, Allassane F
Raso, Giovanna
Edi, Constant VA
Utzinger, Jürg
Tanner, Marcel
Dagnogo, Mamadou
Koudou, Benjamin G
Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire
title Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire
title_full Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire
title_fullStr Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire
title_full_unstemmed Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire
title_short Malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central Côte d'Ivoire
title_sort malaria knowledge and long-lasting insecticidal net use in rural communities of central côte d'ivoire
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21970433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-288
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