From: Early treatment-seeking behaviour for malaria in febrile patients in northwest Ethiopia
Knowledge characteristics | Frequency (%) |
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Knowledge of malaria symptoms | |
Fever | 674 (99.0) |
Chills | 264 (38.8) |
Headache | 608 (89.4) |
Nausea/vomiting | 170 (25.0) |
Loss of appetite | 387 (56.9) |
Joint pain | 263 (38.7) |
Feeling weakness | 82 (12.0) |
Knowledge of malaria causes | |
Mosquito bite | 439 (64.6) |
Eating immature sugarcane | 158 (23.2) |
Cold/changing weather | 43 (6.3) |
Drinking dirty water | 33 (4.9) |
Hunger (empty stomach) | 5 (0.7) |
Getting soaked with rain | 2 (0.3) |
Knowledge of malaria danger signs | |
Seizure/convulsion | 630 (92.6) |
Any fever | 177 (26.0) |
High fever | 510 (75.0) |
Unable to eat | 468 (68.8) |
Vomiting | 210 (30.9) |
Chills/shivering | 320 (47.0) |
Do not know | 5 (0.7) |
Knowledge of vulnerable groups | |
Children | 432 (63.5) |
Pregnant | 476 (70.0) |
Any person | 178 (26.2) |
Elderly | 15 (2.2) |
Knowledge of advantage of sleeping under net | |
Knew advantage | 500 (73.5) |
Do not know advantage | 180 (26.5) |
Knowledge of mosquito breeding sites | |
Stagnant water | 538 (79.1) |
Waste/polluted water | 425 (62.5) |
Broken glass plastics | 225 (33.0) |
Knowledge of prevention of malaria | |
Sleep under a mosquito net | 351 (51.6) |
Avoid mosquito bites | 191 (28.0) |
Environmental control | 578 (85.0) |
Take preventive medication | 49 (7.2) |
Spray house with insecticide | 584 (85.9) |
Do not know | 1 (0.2) |