Community concepts of malaria-related illness with and without convulsions in southern Ghana

Malaria Journal

Table 7 Preventive measures for MRI with and without convulsions

Preventive measures reported¹	How reported²
	Vignette with convulsion (n = 101)		Vignette without convulsion (n = 100)
	Total	Fraction Spont.	Total	Fraction Spont.
Insect bites
Prevent mosquitoes' bite³	58.4	0.27	94.0	0.31**
Regular medications	88.1	0.24	87.0	0.27
Taking herbal or biomedicine regularly	75.4	0.45	73.0	0.44
Deworming regularly	50.4	0.18	49.0	0.16
Sun & strenuous play	33.6	0.21	80.0	0.29**
Stay less in the sun or near fire	31.9	0.22	79.0	0.28**
Reduction in strenuous play	8.0	0.13	35.0	0.20**
Sanitation & hygiene	55.4	0.66	71.0	0.66**
Cleaning the environment	29.7	0.63	49.0	0.74**
Keeping personal hygiene	51.5	0.65	66.0	0.67**
Food and drink	59.4	0.47	86.0	0.38**
Eating balanced diet	33.6	0.59	40.0	0.63
Avoid fatty/oily foods	29.8	0.03	63.0	0.14**
Drinking clean water	18.8	0.37	32.0	0.41**
Eating less starchy food	17.8	0.11	28.0	0.11*
Eating on time (not going hungry for long)	10.9	0.00	16.0	0.13
Drink a lot of vegetable soup	10.9	0.28	18.0	0.28
Magico-religious	47.5	0.19	37.0	0.00**
Avoid offending evil spirits like the witches	23.8	0.25	15.0	0.00*
Attend to ancestral spirits and family gods	40.7	0.20	32.0	0.00
Don't know/cannot tell	22.8	1.00	14.0	1.00

¹ Preventive measures analysed as groups (in bold) based on reported categories that follow.
*p ≤ 0.10 and ** p ≤ 0.05. Wilcoxon test for comparison of prominence of reported categories (2 = spontaneous, 1 = probed response, 0 = not reported).
²Column values indicate frequency of reported categories and the fraction of these reported spontaneously.

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