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Table 4 Overall malaria knowledge and attitude levels among 609 participants

From: The acceptability of targeted mass treatment with primaquine for local elimination of vivax malaria in a northern Myanmar township: a mixed-methods study

Items

n (%)

Knowledge on malariaa

 Good

322 (47)

 Poor

287 (53)

 Mean score ± SD: 9.26 ± 1.9, minimum score: 4, maximum score: 13

 

Overall attitudea

 

 Positive attitude

316 (52)

 Negative attitude

293 (48)

 Mean score ± SD: 30.4 ± 2.9, minimum score: 19, maximum score: 38

 
  1. aGrouping by mean scores: good: > mean, poor: ≤ mean; SD: standard deviation