Table 1 Socio-demographic and household attributes and the percent population with malaria for the attributes
Socio-demographic attributes | Categories | Number of surveyed population positive for the attributes (%) | Number of malaria patients positive for the attributes (%) | Number of non-malaria patients positive for the attributes (%) | χ2, P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 2471 | n = 90 | n = 2381 | |||
Gender | Male | 1256 | 48 (3.8) | 1208 (96.2) | |
Female | 1215 | 42 (3.5) | 1173 (96.5) | ||
Age group | 1–4 years | 122 | 1 (0.8) | 121 (99.2) | |
5–9 years | 155 | 5 (3.2) | 150 (96.8) | ||
10–17 years | 237 | 15 (6.3) | 222 (93.7) | ||
Above 18 years | 1957 | 69 (3.5) | 1888 (96.5) | ||
Occupation (away from home during day time-going either to work place or to educational institutions) | Yes | 1540 | 65 (4.2) | 1475 (95.8) | 3.898, 0.048 |
No | 931 | 25 (2.7) | 906 (97.3) |
Household attributes | Categories | Number of surveyed households positive for the attributes (%) | Number of malarious households positive for the attributes (%) | Number of non-malarious households positive for the attributes (%) | χ2, P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 632 | n = 71 | n = 561 | |||
Vector control and prevention measures | Fogging | 419 | 49 (11.7) | 370 (88.3) | |
Antilarval | 521 | 63 (12.1) | 458 (87.9) | ||
Repellent use | Houses which use at least one type of repellent (coils, vaporizers, mats) | 346 | 34 (9.8) | 312 (90.2) | |
Houses using coil | 49 | 9 (18.4) | 40 (81.6) | ||
Houses using mat | 8 | 1 (12.5) | 9 (112.5) | ||
Houses using vaporizer | 289 | 24 (8.3) | 265 (91.7) | ||
Size of the family/household and type of resident | Houses with inhabitants ≤ 3 | 227 | 9 (4) | 218 (96) | 18.772, < 0.001 |
Houses with inhabitants > 3 | 405 | 62 (15.3) | 343 (84.7) | ||
Residing in concrete houses | 473 | 37 (7.8) | 436 (92.2) | 232.48, < 0.001 | |
Residing in thatched houses | 64 | 14 (21.9) | 50 (78.1) | ||
Residing in tiled houses | 12 | 2 (16.7) | 10 (83.3) | ||
Residing in asbestos houses | 78 | 18 (23.1) | 60 (76.9) | ||
Presence of a separate kitchen | 450 | 41 (9.1) | 409 (90.9) | 12.506, 0.002 | |
Presence of any animals/pets around household | 202 | 28 (13.9) | 174 (86.1) | ||
Presence and nature of breeding habitat | Presence of breeding source | 552 | 57 (10.3) | 495 (89.7) | |
Presence of breeding source with any mosquito breeding | 143 | 9 (6.3) | 134 (93.7) | 4.524, 0.033 | |
Presence of breeding source with vector immatures | 101 | 3 (3) | 98 (97) | 8.232, 0.04 | |
Presence of breeding source with at least one unapproachable habitat | 455 | 45 (9.9) | 410 (90.1) | ||
Presence of OHT | 463 | 38 (8.2) | 425 (91.8) | 15.907, < 0.001 | |
Presence of cisterns | 34 | 9 (26.5) | 25 (73.5) | 8.365, 0.04 |