MDA administration | |||||||||
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No | Incomplete | Complete | Total | p value* | |||||
Number respondents | (56) | (148) | (174) | (378) | |||||
What did you learn and understand during the sensitisation meetings? (more than one answer was allowed) | |||||||||
Many people who get malaria become sick | 49 | 88 % | 125 | 84 % | 159 | 91 % | 333 | 88 % | 0.151 |
Individuals can have malaria infections and feel perfectly well | 16 | 29 % | 63 | 43 % | 81 | 47 % | 324 | 43 % | 0.038 |
Malaria is more common in the rainy season | 42 | 76 % | 114 | 78 % | 146 | 85 % | 305 | 81 % | 0.857 |
Mosquitoes may become infected from biting individuals who do not get sick | 44 | 80 % | 111 | 75 % | 137 | 79 % | 292 | 78 % | 0.672 |
It is difficult to tell which individuals are carrying malaria without getting sick | 36 | 64 % | 92 | 62 % | 96 | 55 % | 224 | 59 % | 0.281 |
Nothing | 1 | 2 % | 1 | 1 % | 1 | 1 % | 3 | 1 % | 0.531 |
What do you think the medicine is for? | |||||||||
Protection from malaria | 43 | 77 % | 122 | 82 % | 157 | 90 % | 322 | 85 % | 0.023 |
Gives me strength/energy | 1 | 2 % | 8 | 5 % | 8 | 5 % | 17 | 4 % | 0.536 |
Mosquitoes will not be able to bite me | 1 | 2 % | 5 | 3 % | 4 | 2 % | 10 | 3 % | 0.759 |
After taking the medicine I will not need to sleep under my bed net | 0 | 0 % | 1 | 1 % | 0 | 0 % | 1 | 0 % | 0.459 |
No answer | 11 | 20 % | 12 | 8 % | 5 | 3 % | 28 | 7 % |