Health education through mass media announcements by loudspeakers about malaria care: prevention and practice among people living in a malaria endemic area of northern Myanmar

Autor: Tepanata Pumpaibool, Myat Phone Kyaw, Lynette Menezes, Jessica Burgess, Than Naing Soe, Liwang Cui, Pyae Linn Aung
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Adult
Male
Rural Population
medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
Endemic Diseases
lcsh:RC955-962
030231 tropical medicine
Population
Announcement
Psychological intervention
Malaria infection
Myanmar
Rural Myanmar
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Intervention (counseling)
Environmental health
parasitic diseases
medicine
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
Mass Media
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Loudspeaker
Health Education
Aged
education.field_of_study
Descriptive statistics
business.industry
Research
Public health
Malaria care
Middle Aged
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
medicine.disease
Malaria
3. Good health
Infectious Diseases
Tropical medicine
Female
Parasitology
Health education
business
Zdroj: Malaria Journal, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2019)
Malaria Journal
ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-019-2985-6
Popis: Background Interventions to raise community awareness about malaria prevention and treatment have used various approaches with little evidence on their efficacy. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of loudspeaker announcements regarding malaria care and prevention practices among people living in the malaria endemic villages of Banmauk Township, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. Methods Four villages among the most malaria-burdened areas were randomly selected: two villages were assigned as the intervention group, and two as the control. Prior to the peak transmission season of malaria in June 2018, a baseline questionnaire was administered to 270 participants from randomly selected households in the control and intervention villages. The loudspeaker announcements broadcasted health messages on malaria care and prevention practices regularly at 7:00 pm every other day. The same questionnaire was administered at 6-month post intervention to both groups. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and the t-test were utilized to assess differences between and within groups. Results Participants across the control and intervention groups showed similar socio-economic characteristics; the baseline knowledge, attitude and practice mean scores were not significantly different between the groups. Six months after the intervention, improvements in scores were observed at p-value Conclusions The loudspeaker intervention was found to be feasible and effective, as shown by the significant improvement in scores related to prevention and care-seeking practices for malaria as well as reduced malaria morbidity. Expanding the intervention to a larger population in this endemic region and evaluating its long-term effectiveness are essential in addition to replicating this in other low-resource malaria endemic regions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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