Assessment of the usage and effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment and insecticide-treated nets on the indicators of malaria among pregnant women attending antenatal care in the Buea Health District, Cameroon

Table 2 Effects of the usage of the different interventions on malaria, parasitaemia and haemoglobin levels

Factor	Form of intervention				Total N = 410	Significance level
Factor	IPT + ITN N = 97	IPT only N = 164	ITN only N = 36	None N = 113	Total N = 410	Significance level
Malaria prevalence	7 (7.2 %)	21 (12.8 %)	6 (16.7 %)	21 (18.6 %)	55 (13.4 %)	χ2 = 6.188 P = 0.103
GMPD	123 ± 694	137 ± 653	915 ± 2549	461 ± 11,114	261 ± 7056	χ2 = 6.975 P = 0.073
Anaemia prevalence	46 (47.4 %)	54 (32.9 %)	17 (47.2 %)	54 (47.8 %)	171 (41.7 %)	χ2 = 8.673 P = 0.034
GMHB	10.34 ± 1.66	10.67 ± 1.40	10.10 ± 1.26	10.22 ± 1.47	10.42 ± 1.48	χ² = 10.453 P = 0.015

GMPD is geometric mean of parasite density and GMHB is geometric mean of Haemoglobin levels