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Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, are focusing on the distribution of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) to combat malaria. However, utilization of the LLIN is low when compared with LLIN possession because of various factors. This study was conducted to measu...

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Autores principales: Hambisa, Mitiku Teshome, Debela, Tessema, Dessie, Yadeta, Gobena, Tesfaye
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5022-8
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author Hambisa, Mitiku Teshome
Debela, Tessema
Dessie, Yadeta
Gobena, Tesfaye
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Debela, Tessema
Dessie, Yadeta
Gobena, Tesfaye
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description BACKGROUND: Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, are focusing on the distribution of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) to combat malaria. However, utilization of the LLIN is low when compared with LLIN possession because of various factors. This study was conducted to measure the actual LLIN usage and identify factors associated with its utilization in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia. METHODS: A community based cross-sectional survey was conducted among 830 households from December 25, 2011 to February 29, 2012. RESULTS: A total of 830 households were selected by stratified systematic sampling and surveyed. Ninety percent of those surveyed owned LLINs and 68.3% reported that someone had slept under the net on the night prior to the survey. The factors associated with LLIN usage were knowledge of the mode of malaria transmission (AOR; 0.086, 95% CI 0.03, 0.24), the preferred conical shapes of the LLIN (AOR; 1.6, 95% CI 1.31, 4.1), receiving information about their use from Health Extension Workers (HEWs) (AOR; 2.4, 95% CI 1.5, 3.9), hearing media campaigns (AOR; 3.2 95% CI 3.5, 9.2), education at a health facility (AOR; 2 95% CI 1.5, 3.9) or having a family size of three or less (AOR; 2.1, 95% CI 1.3, 3.5). CONCLUSION: Although ownership of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets was high at 90%, the actual usage of LLIN was low, and not all family members were protected. Promoting the usage of LLINs utilization by those at most risk, especially the conical shaped ones, through intensified health education using HEWs and mass media campaigns at all health facilities, schools and communities will improve LLIN utilization.
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spelling pubmed-57640202018-01-17 Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia Hambisa, Mitiku Teshome Debela, Tessema Dessie, Yadeta Gobena, Tesfaye BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, are focusing on the distribution of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) to combat malaria. However, utilization of the LLIN is low when compared with LLIN possession because of various factors. This study was conducted to measure the actual LLIN usage and identify factors associated with its utilization in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia. METHODS: A community based cross-sectional survey was conducted among 830 households from December 25, 2011 to February 29, 2012. RESULTS: A total of 830 households were selected by stratified systematic sampling and surveyed. Ninety percent of those surveyed owned LLINs and 68.3% reported that someone had slept under the net on the night prior to the survey. The factors associated with LLIN usage were knowledge of the mode of malaria transmission (AOR; 0.086, 95% CI 0.03, 0.24), the preferred conical shapes of the LLIN (AOR; 1.6, 95% CI 1.31, 4.1), receiving information about their use from Health Extension Workers (HEWs) (AOR; 2.4, 95% CI 1.5, 3.9), hearing media campaigns (AOR; 3.2 95% CI 3.5, 9.2), education at a health facility (AOR; 2 95% CI 1.5, 3.9) or having a family size of three or less (AOR; 2.1, 95% CI 1.3, 3.5). CONCLUSION: Although ownership of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets was high at 90%, the actual usage of LLIN was low, and not all family members were protected. Promoting the usage of LLINs utilization by those at most risk, especially the conical shaped ones, through intensified health education using HEWs and mass media campaigns at all health facilities, schools and communities will improve LLIN utilization. BioMed Central 2018-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5764020/ /pubmed/29321016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5022-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 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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Dessie, Yadeta
Gobena, Tesfaye
Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia
title Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia
title_full Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia
title_fullStr Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia
title_short Long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in Limmu Seka District, South West Ethiopia
title_sort long lasting insecticidal net use and its associated factors in limmu seka district, south west ethiopia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5022-8
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