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Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla

BACKGROUND: Changes in social, belief, and behavioural practices are essential for the success of any public health delivery programme. In the planning stages of the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project (MEDP), priority was given to communication with a goal to develop capacity of health worker...

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Autores principales: Rajvanshi, Harsh, Saha, Kalyan B., Sharma, Ravendra K., Bharti, Praveen K., Nisar, Sekh, Jayswar, Himanshu, Mishra, Ashok K., Shukla, Man Mohan, Das, Aparup, Kaur, Harpreet, Wattal, Suman L., Lal, Altaf A.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34454483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03884-y
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author Rajvanshi, Harsh
Saha, Kalyan B.
Sharma, Ravendra K.
Bharti, Praveen K.
Nisar, Sekh
Jayswar, Himanshu
Mishra, Ashok K.
Shukla, Man Mohan
Das, Aparup
Kaur, Harpreet
Wattal, Suman L.
Lal, Altaf A.
author_facet Rajvanshi, Harsh
Saha, Kalyan B.
Sharma, Ravendra K.
Bharti, Praveen K.
Nisar, Sekh
Jayswar, Himanshu
Mishra, Ashok K.
Shukla, Man Mohan
Das, Aparup
Kaur, Harpreet
Wattal, Suman L.
Lal, Altaf A.
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description BACKGROUND: Changes in social, belief, and behavioural practices are essential for the success of any public health delivery programme. In the planning stages of the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project (MEDP), priority was given to communication with a goal to develop capacity of health workers and to improve the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of the people of Mandla. This paper describes the level of community knowledge on malaria, including its prevention, diagnosis, treatment-seeking behaviour, and the level of satisfaction with the services provided by the project. METHODS: A cross sectional survey was undertaken in 1233 villages of Mandla to study the KAP and self-assessed improvement in knowledge and satisfaction level of the community. The goal of the study was to understand whether there is need for strengthening communication strategy of MEDP for better impact. The survey was conducted amongst the head/eligible members of the 733 households located in the nine blocks of the district using clustered random sampling. RESULTS: Though four-fifths of the respondents were able to correlate the transmission of malaria with mosquitoes, misconceptions existed among them. The types of malaria were not known to everyone. Only 39% were aware of the Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) and 41% understood the value of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN). Around 71% of subjects surveyed were aware of the proper diagnostic tests for malaria. A total of 87% of the respondents knew about the MEDP staff working in their respective villages. CONCLUSION: The study reported gaps in knowledge on malaria at community level. The self-assessment of the community revealed that the communication strategy established by MEDP in Mandla district has been useful to them as they are becoming better informed about the prevention and treatment aspects of disease. The lessons learned as revealed in the KAP survey will improve malaria elimination outcomes in a timely manner.
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spelling pubmed-84034422021-08-30 Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla Rajvanshi, Harsh Saha, Kalyan B. Sharma, Ravendra K. Bharti, Praveen K. Nisar, Sekh Jayswar, Himanshu Mishra, Ashok K. Shukla, Man Mohan Das, Aparup Kaur, Harpreet Wattal, Suman L. Lal, Altaf A. Malar J Research BACKGROUND: Changes in social, belief, and behavioural practices are essential for the success of any public health delivery programme. In the planning stages of the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project (MEDP), priority was given to communication with a goal to develop capacity of health workers and to improve the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of the people of Mandla. This paper describes the level of community knowledge on malaria, including its prevention, diagnosis, treatment-seeking behaviour, and the level of satisfaction with the services provided by the project. METHODS: A cross sectional survey was undertaken in 1233 villages of Mandla to study the KAP and self-assessed improvement in knowledge and satisfaction level of the community. The goal of the study was to understand whether there is need for strengthening communication strategy of MEDP for better impact. The survey was conducted amongst the head/eligible members of the 733 households located in the nine blocks of the district using clustered random sampling. RESULTS: Though four-fifths of the respondents were able to correlate the transmission of malaria with mosquitoes, misconceptions existed among them. The types of malaria were not known to everyone. Only 39% were aware of the Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) and 41% understood the value of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN). Around 71% of subjects surveyed were aware of the proper diagnostic tests for malaria. A total of 87% of the respondents knew about the MEDP staff working in their respective villages. CONCLUSION: The study reported gaps in knowledge on malaria at community level. The self-assessment of the community revealed that the communication strategy established by MEDP in Mandla district has been useful to them as they are becoming better informed about the prevention and treatment aspects of disease. The lessons learned as revealed in the KAP survey will improve malaria elimination outcomes in a timely manner. BioMed Central 2021-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8403442/ /pubmed/34454483 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03884-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 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.
spellingShingle Research
Rajvanshi, Harsh
Saha, Kalyan B.
Sharma, Ravendra K.
Bharti, Praveen K.
Nisar, Sekh
Jayswar, Himanshu
Mishra, Ashok K.
Shukla, Man Mohan
Das, Aparup
Kaur, Harpreet
Wattal, Suman L.
Lal, Altaf A.
Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla
title Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla
title_full Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla
title_fullStr Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla
title_full_unstemmed Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla
title_short Assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla
title_sort assessing community knowledge, attitude and practices to strengthen communication strategy for malaria elimination demonstration project in mandla
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34454483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03884-y
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