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Status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Nigeria has the largest number of malaria-related deaths, accounting for a third of global malaria deaths. It is important that the country attains universal coverage of key malaria interventions, one of which is the policy of universal testing before treatment, which the country has rec...

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Autores principales: Mokuolu, Olugbenga A., Ntadom, Godwin N., Ajumobi, Olufemi O., Alero, Roberts A., Wammanda, Robinson D., Adedoyin, Olanrewaju T., Okafor, Henrietta U., Alabi, Adekunle D., Odey, Friday A., Agomo, Chimere O., Edozieh, Kate U., Fagbemi, Tolulope O., Njidda, Ahmad M., Babatunde, Seye, Agbo, Emmanuel C., Nwaneri, Nnamdi B., Shekarau, Emmanuel D., Obasa, Temitope O., Ezeigwe, Nnenna M.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-1064-x
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author Mokuolu, Olugbenga A.
Ntadom, Godwin N.
Ajumobi, Olufemi O.
Alero, Roberts A.
Wammanda, Robinson D.
Adedoyin, Olanrewaju T.
Okafor, Henrietta U.
Alabi, Adekunle D.
Odey, Friday A.
Agomo, Chimere O.
Edozieh, Kate U.
Fagbemi, Tolulope O.
Njidda, Ahmad M.
Babatunde, Seye
Agbo, Emmanuel C.
Nwaneri, Nnamdi B.
Shekarau, Emmanuel D.
Obasa, Temitope O.
Ezeigwe, Nnenna M.
author_facet Mokuolu, Olugbenga A.
Ntadom, Godwin N.
Ajumobi, Olufemi O.
Alero, Roberts A.
Wammanda, Robinson D.
Adedoyin, Olanrewaju T.
Okafor, Henrietta U.
Alabi, Adekunle D.
Odey, Friday A.
Agomo, Chimere O.
Edozieh, Kate U.
Fagbemi, Tolulope O.
Njidda, Ahmad M.
Babatunde, Seye
Agbo, Emmanuel C.
Nwaneri, Nnamdi B.
Shekarau, Emmanuel D.
Obasa, Temitope O.
Ezeigwe, Nnenna M.
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description BACKGROUND: Nigeria has the largest number of malaria-related deaths, accounting for a third of global malaria deaths. It is important that the country attains universal coverage of key malaria interventions, one of which is the policy of universal testing before treatment, which the country has recently adopted. However, there is a dearth of data on its implementation in formal private health facilities, where close to a third of the population seek health care. This study identified the level of use of malaria rapid diagnostic testing (RDT), compliance with test results and associated challenges in the formal private health facilities in Nigeria. METHODS: A cross-sectional study that involved a multi-stage, random sampling of 240 formal private health facilities from the country’s six geo-political zones was conducted from July to August 2014. Data were collected using health facility records, healthcare workers’ interviews and an exit survey of febrile patients seen at the facilities, in order to determine fever prevalence, level of testing of febrile patience, compliance with test results, and health workers’ perceptions to RDT use. RESULTS: Data from the 201 health facilities analysed indicated a fever prevalence of 38.5 % (112,521/292,430). Of the 2077 exit interviews for febrile patients, malaria testing was ordered in 73.8 % (95 % CI 71.7–75.7 %). Among the 1270 tested, 61.8 % (719/1270) were tested with microscopy and 38.2 % (445/1270) with RDT. Compliance to malaria test result [administering arteminisin-based combination therapy (ACT) to positive patients and withholding ACT from negative patients] was 80.9 % (95 % CI 78.7–83 %). Compliance was not influenced by the age of patients or type of malaria test. The health facilities have various cadres of the health workers knowledgeable on RDT with 70 % knowing the meaning, while 84.5 % knew what it assesses. However, there was clearly a preference for microscopy as only 20 % reported performing only RDT. CONCLUSION: In formal private health facilities in Nigeria there is a high rate of malaria testing for febrile patients, high level of compliance with test results but relatively low level of RDT utilization. This calls for improved engagement of the formal private health sector with a view to achieving universal coverage targets on malaria testing.
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spelling pubmed-47005732016-01-06 Status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in Nigeria Mokuolu, Olugbenga A. Ntadom, Godwin N. Ajumobi, Olufemi O. Alero, Roberts A. Wammanda, Robinson D. Adedoyin, Olanrewaju T. Okafor, Henrietta U. Alabi, Adekunle D. Odey, Friday A. Agomo, Chimere O. Edozieh, Kate U. Fagbemi, Tolulope O. Njidda, Ahmad M. Babatunde, Seye Agbo, Emmanuel C. Nwaneri, Nnamdi B. Shekarau, Emmanuel D. Obasa, Temitope O. Ezeigwe, Nnenna M. Malar J Research BACKGROUND: Nigeria has the largest number of malaria-related deaths, accounting for a third of global malaria deaths. It is important that the country attains universal coverage of key malaria interventions, one of which is the policy of universal testing before treatment, which the country has recently adopted. However, there is a dearth of data on its implementation in formal private health facilities, where close to a third of the population seek health care. This study identified the level of use of malaria rapid diagnostic testing (RDT), compliance with test results and associated challenges in the formal private health facilities in Nigeria. METHODS: A cross-sectional study that involved a multi-stage, random sampling of 240 formal private health facilities from the country’s six geo-political zones was conducted from July to August 2014. Data were collected using health facility records, healthcare workers’ interviews and an exit survey of febrile patients seen at the facilities, in order to determine fever prevalence, level of testing of febrile patience, compliance with test results, and health workers’ perceptions to RDT use. RESULTS: Data from the 201 health facilities analysed indicated a fever prevalence of 38.5 % (112,521/292,430). Of the 2077 exit interviews for febrile patients, malaria testing was ordered in 73.8 % (95 % CI 71.7–75.7 %). Among the 1270 tested, 61.8 % (719/1270) were tested with microscopy and 38.2 % (445/1270) with RDT. Compliance to malaria test result [administering arteminisin-based combination therapy (ACT) to positive patients and withholding ACT from negative patients] was 80.9 % (95 % CI 78.7–83 %). Compliance was not influenced by the age of patients or type of malaria test. The health facilities have various cadres of the health workers knowledgeable on RDT with 70 % knowing the meaning, while 84.5 % knew what it assesses. However, there was clearly a preference for microscopy as only 20 % reported performing only RDT. CONCLUSION: In formal private health facilities in Nigeria there is a high rate of malaria testing for febrile patients, high level of compliance with test results but relatively low level of RDT utilization. This calls for improved engagement of the formal private health sector with a view to achieving universal coverage targets on malaria testing. BioMed Central 2016-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4700573/ /pubmed/26728037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-1064-x Text en © Mokuolu et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mokuolu, Olugbenga A.
Ntadom, Godwin N.
Ajumobi, Olufemi O.
Alero, Roberts A.
Wammanda, Robinson D.
Adedoyin, Olanrewaju T.
Okafor, Henrietta U.
Alabi, Adekunle D.
Odey, Friday A.
Agomo, Chimere O.
Edozieh, Kate U.
Fagbemi, Tolulope O.
Njidda, Ahmad M.
Babatunde, Seye
Agbo, Emmanuel C.
Nwaneri, Nnamdi B.
Shekarau, Emmanuel D.
Obasa, Temitope O.
Ezeigwe, Nnenna M.
Status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in Nigeria
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title_full Status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in Nigeria
title_fullStr Status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in Nigeria
title_short Status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in Nigeria
title_sort status of the use and compliance with malaria rapid diagnostic tests in formal private health facilities in nigeria
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-1064-x
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