Table 4 Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAPs) of study subjects with regards to malaria in the rural areas of Southeast of Yemen (n = 130)*
Characteristics | Number (%) |
|---|---|
Knowledge and attitudes | |
Know malaria | 130 (100) |
Malaria can kill | 53 (51) |
Mode of transmission mentioned | |
Mosquito bite | 130 (100) |
Lack of sanitation | 4 (3) |
Swamps | 19 (15) |
Causes of malaria mentioned | |
Flies | 42 (32) |
Sleeping with infected person in the same bed | 106 (82) |
Mosquito bite | 130 (100) |
Drinking or playing in contaminated water | 0 (00) |
The presence of sewage | 9(7) |
Symptoms of malaria mentioned | |
Fever | 53 (41) |
Fever + shivering | 77 (59) |
Serious for adult or children | |
Children | 118 (91) |
Equally serious | 12 (9) |
Methods of prevention mentioned | |
Cleaning the house or environment | 118 (91) |
Sleeping under the mosquito net | 9 (7) |
House spraying with insecticides | 3 (2) |
Smoking house | 69 (53) |
Practices | |
Using insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs)a | 14 (11) |
House spray with insecticide (IRS)# | 130 (100) |
Not closing house windows | 130 (100) |
Closing house doors | 130 (100) |
Going to clinic when having fever | 22 (17) |
Houses with wood roofs | 130 (100) |
Houses with uncemented bricks wall | 93 (72) |
Houses with mud wall | 37 (28) |
Keeping uncovered water near houses | 130 (100) |