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Malaria prevention knowledge, attitudes, and practices in Zambezia Province, Mozambique
Pinto, liliana de sousa; Arroz, jorge a h; Martins, maria do rosário o; Hartz, zulmira; Negrao, nuria; Muchanga, victor; Cossa, amadeu; Zulliger, rose.
Afiliação
  • Pinto, liliana de sousa; Mozambique medical coucil, maputo. Maputo. MZ
  • Arroz, jorge a h; Mozambique medical coucil, maputo. Maputo. MZ
  • Martins, maria do rosário o; Global health and tropical medicine, ghtm, instituto de higiene e medicina tropical, ihmt, universidade nova de lisboa. Lisboa. PT
  • Hartz, zulmira; Global health and tropical medicine, ghtm, instituto de higiene e medicina tropical, ihmt, universidade nova de lisboa. Lisboa. PT
  • Negrao, nuria; Cactus communications, satellite gazebo, guru hargovindji marg, andheri east, maharashtr. Maharashtra. IN
  • Muchanga, victor; Plataforma inter-religiosa de comunicação para saúde­pircom, maputo. Maputo. MZ
  • Cossa, amadeu; Plataforma inter-religiosa de comunicação para saúde­pircom, maputo. Maputo. MZ
  • Zulliger, rose; Independent consultant, maputo. Maputo. MZ
Malar. j. (Online) ; 20(293): 1-10, 2021. Tab.
Article em En | AIM, RSDM | ID: biblio-1353124
Biblioteca responsável: MZ1.1
ABSTRACT

Background:

In Mozambique, socio-economic and cultural factors influence the wide adoption of disease preventive measures that are relevant for malaria control strategies to promote early recognition of disease, prompt seeking of medical care, sleeping under insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), and taking intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women. However, there is a critical information gap regarding previous and ongoing malaria social and behavioural change (SBC) interventions. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge, attitudes, practices of beneficiaries of SBC interventions.

Methods:

A descriptive cross-sectional survey was undertaken in 2018 in two rural districts of Zambezia Province, Mozambique. A structured questionnaire was administered to 773 randomly selected households. Respondents were the adult heads of the households. Descriptive statistics were done.

Results:

The main results show that 96.4% of respondents recalled hearing about malaria in the previous 6 months, 90.0% had knowledge of malaria prevention, and 70.0% of preventive measures. Of the 97.7% respondents that had received ITNs through a mass ITN distribution campaign, 81.7% had slept under an ITN the night before the survey. In terms of source of health information, 70.5% mentioned the role of community volunteers in dissemination of malaria prevention messages, 76.1% of respondents considered worship places (churches and mosques) to be the main places where they heard key malaria prevention messages, and 79.1% asserted that community dialogue sessions helped them better understand how to prevent malaria.

Conclusions:

Results show that volunteers/activists/teachers played an important role in dissemination of key malaria prevention messages, which brought the following successes community actors are recognized and people have knowledge of malaria transmission, signs and symptoms, preventive measures, and where to get treatment. There is, however, room for improvement on SBC messaging regarding some malaria symptoms (anaemia and convulsions) and operational research is needed to ascertain the drivers of malaria prevalence and inform the SBC approach.
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Coleções: 06-national / MZ Base de dados: AIM / RSDM Assunto principal: População Rural / Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde / Estudos Transversais / Malária Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prevalence_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: Malar. j. (Online) Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article

Coleções: 06-national / MZ Base de dados: AIM / RSDM Assunto principal: População Rural / Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde / Estudos Transversais / Malária Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prevalence_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: Malar. j. (Online) Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article