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Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon

INTRODUCTION: adequate community perception of malaria is crucial to improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. This study aimed to determine the caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas, Cameroon. METHODS: a cross-sectional s...

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Autores principales: Dongmo, Esther Kenfack, Tendongfor, Nicholas, Njouendou, Abdel Jelil, Nsagha, Dickson Shey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9379393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36034007
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.91.28242
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author Dongmo, Esther Kenfack
Tendongfor, Nicholas
Njouendou, Abdel Jelil
Nsagha, Dickson Shey
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Tendongfor, Nicholas
Njouendou, Abdel Jelil
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description INTRODUCTION: adequate community perception of malaria is crucial to improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. This study aimed to determine the caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas, Cameroon. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of home caregivers (HCGs) in Baneghang, a health area under Community Directed Intervention (CDI), and Fombap, a CDI-free health area. Community health workers (CHWs) conducted a census to identify households with under-five children that constituted a sample frame, and then a systematic random sampling was used to select HCGs. Analysis of variance was used to compare the mean score perceptions of HCGs in the management of childhood malaria at the two sites. RESULTS: out of 420 HCGs interviewed, 161 (38.3%), 226 (53.8%), and 271 (64.5%) displayed correct knowledge, positive attitude, and good practice, respectively, towards childhood malaria prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in both study sites. The mean score knowledge of HCGs in Baneghang was significantly higher than that of those in Fombap (7.33 versus 6.94, p < 0.001). The mean score of attitudes of HCGs towards childhood malaria was also higher in Baneghang than in Fombap (6.59 versus 6.29, p=0.013). However, the mean scores of good practices of HCGs on childhood malaria in both health areas were similar (5.94 versus 5.92, p=0.921). CONCLUSION: home-based management of childhood malaria seems to have contributed to good knowledge and positive attitudes of HCGs on malaria prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-93793932022-08-26 Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon Dongmo, Esther Kenfack Tendongfor, Nicholas Njouendou, Abdel Jelil Nsagha, Dickson Shey Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: adequate community perception of malaria is crucial to improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. This study aimed to determine the caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas, Cameroon. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of home caregivers (HCGs) in Baneghang, a health area under Community Directed Intervention (CDI), and Fombap, a CDI-free health area. Community health workers (CHWs) conducted a census to identify households with under-five children that constituted a sample frame, and then a systematic random sampling was used to select HCGs. Analysis of variance was used to compare the mean score perceptions of HCGs in the management of childhood malaria at the two sites. RESULTS: out of 420 HCGs interviewed, 161 (38.3%), 226 (53.8%), and 271 (64.5%) displayed correct knowledge, positive attitude, and good practice, respectively, towards childhood malaria prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in both study sites. The mean score knowledge of HCGs in Baneghang was significantly higher than that of those in Fombap (7.33 versus 6.94, p < 0.001). The mean score of attitudes of HCGs towards childhood malaria was also higher in Baneghang than in Fombap (6.59 versus 6.29, p=0.013). However, the mean scores of good practices of HCGs on childhood malaria in both health areas were similar (5.94 versus 5.92, p=0.921). CONCLUSION: home-based management of childhood malaria seems to have contributed to good knowledge and positive attitudes of HCGs on malaria prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9379393/ /pubmed/36034007 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.91.28242 Text en Copyright: Esther Kenfack Dongmo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dongmo, Esther Kenfack
Tendongfor, Nicholas
Njouendou, Abdel Jelil
Nsagha, Dickson Shey
Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon
title Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon
title_full Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon
title_fullStr Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon
title_full_unstemmed Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon
title_short Caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in Baneghang and Fombap health areas in the West Region of Cameroon
title_sort caregiver´s perception of the home-based management of childhood malaria in baneghang and fombap health areas in the west region of cameroon
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9379393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36034007
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.91.28242
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