Malaria education from school to community in Oudomxay province, Lao PDR

Nonaka, Daisuke; Kobayashi, Jun; Jimba, Masamine; Vilaysouk, Bounsou; Tsukamoto, K; Kano, Shigeyuki; Phommasack, Bounlay; Singhasivanon, Pratap; Waikagul, Jitra; Tateno, Seiki; Takeuchi, Tsutomu

doi:10.1016/j.parint.2007.09.005

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“…Equipping children with appropriate and scientific information about malaria offer a cost-effective system through which to control malaria amongst schoolchildren and the wider community [12,6,13,14]. However, there is lack of evidence to what extent primary school students have appropriate knowledge and information sharing practice with parents about malaria in our country.…”

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Malaria Related Knowledge and Child to Parent Communication Regarding Prevention and Control of Malaria among Primary School Students in Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia

Debela¹,

Birhanu

Koricha³

2014

AJHR

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Abstract:Background: Malaria still imposes an enormous burden in terms of morbidity and loss of life. It is assumed that school based health education can help to promote community wide awareness and prevention of malaria. But, evidence is limited on the extent to which school children are equipped with appropriate and scientific information about malaria and communicate with their parents. Objective: To assess malaria related knowledge and child to parent communication regarding prevention and control of malaria among primary school students. Methods: Institution based cross sectional study was conducted in three selected Woredas of Jimma zone, south west Ethiopia from march, 15 to 30, 2014. The study recruited 432 samples of school children in 10 selected schools from the three woredas. A multi stage sampling method followed by simple random sampling was carried out to select the samples. The data were collected using pretested structured questionnaire adapted from similar studies. EPI-DATA version 3.1 was used to enter the data and data was exported to SPSS version 20.0 for further statistical analysis. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used. Adjusted odds ratios and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals were used to assess the association between individual variables with the outcome variable in the multivariate analysis with a p-value of (< 0.05). Result: The mean score of students for comprehensive knowledge related to malaria was 6.13+ 1.88. The major source of information was radio (42.2%). Nearly half (49.5%) of students communicate with their family about malaria and the major areas of communication were concerning symptoms and prevention and control methods. Age [AOR, 95% CI, 1.18 (1.04, 1.34)], comprehensive knowledge [AOR, 95% CI, 1.34(1.19, 1.50)] and perceived parental readiness to learn from children [AOR, 95% CI, 2.09 (1.43, 3.06)] were independent predictors of child to parent communication. Conclusion: In this study comprehensive knowledge about malaria was found to be high among the students. However, knowledge gap about the cause and transmission were also observed among the students. Malaria health education should be strengthened in the schools to advance malaria knowledge and foster communication behavior of the students and health facilities should give attention for schools through equipping teachers with information about malaria prevention and control strategies so that such knowledge could be passed on to students.

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Malaria Related Knowledge and Child to Parent Communication Regarding Prevention and Control of Malaria among Primary School Students in Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia

Debela¹,

Birhanu

Koricha³

2014

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“…8,9 Primary school programs aimed at preventing diarrhea by installing drinking water and handwashing stations in schools, teaching students about hygiene and water treatment, and instructing them to share these messages with their families have increased hygiene knowledge among students and changed practices of parents. [10][11][12] However, although some studies of these schoolbased programs have found reduced absenteeism among students, [13][14][15][16][17] limited data exist on the direct health impact of these programs.…”

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Impact of a Hygiene Curriculum and the Installation of Simple Handwashing and Drinking Water Stations in Rural Kenyan Primary Schools on Student Health and Hygiene Practices

Patel

Harris²,

Juliao³

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The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. School-based hygiene and water treatment programs increase student knowledge, improve hygiene, and decrease absenteeism, however health impact studies of these programs are lacking. We collected baseline information from students in 42 schools in Kenya. We then instituted a curriculum on safe water and hand hygiene and installed water stations in half ("intervention schools"). One year later, we implemented the intervention in remaining schools. Through biweekly student household visits and two annual surveys, we compared the effect of the intervention on hygiene practices and reported student illness. We saw improvement in proper handwashing techniques after the school program was introduced. We observed a decrease in the median percentage of students with acute respiratory illness among those exposed to the program; no decrease in acute diarrhea was seen. Students in this school program exhibited sustained improvement in hygiene knowledge and a decreased risk of respiratory infections after the intervention.

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“…This result is different with study about health education on malaria issue among elementary school children in Laos [13]. They used flipchart as the intervention and it significantly improved Advances in Health Science Research, volume 10 knowledge on malaria among school children.…”

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Improving Knowledge on The Prevention of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Among Elementary School Students in Jakarta, Indonesia: A Quasi Experimental Study

Nasir¹,

Baequni²

2017

Proceedings of the 1st International Integrative Conference on Health, Life and Social Sciences (ICHLaS 2017)

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Abstract-Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) remains as one of major public health problems in Indonesia. During the years, Jakarta has become the province with high number of DHF cases. To reduce the cases, DHF prevention initiative can be done through health education. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge of elementary school students in Jakarta, Indonesia on the prevention of DHF by giving the health education as the intervention. A quasi experimental study with pre and post-test design was carried out among 5 th and 6 th grades of elementary school students in 21 schools in Jakarta region. Seven schools received poster intervention and other 7 schools received flip chart intervention, while 7 schools were determined as the control group. Data from 630 students were collected to be analyzed during the study. The result showed that the students in the intervention groups had the likelihood to improve their knowledge 2.415 times (95% confidence interval: 1.620 -3.601) for poster presentation and 1.527 times (95% confidence interval: 1.038 -2.246) for flip chart when it was compared to the students who did not received any intervention (control group). Although both interventions (poster and flip chart) have indicated the significant effect in increasing overall knowledge, but implementing health education through poster was more effective than flip chart to spread information among students. The students had a good knowledge on control measures to prevent DHF, but still need more improvement about action to tackle DHF patient in early stage of DHF symptoms such as caring and seeking health care. In conclusion, providing health education such as poster and flip chart to the elementary school students as one of the vulnerable group to DHF might be beneficial for the prevention of DHF.

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Malaria education from school to community in Oudomxay province, Lao PDR

Cited by 46 publications

References 13 publications

Malaria Related Knowledge and Child to Parent Communication Regarding Prevention and Control of Malaria among Primary School Students in Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia

Malaria Related Knowledge and Child to Parent Communication Regarding Prevention and Control of Malaria among Primary School Students in Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia

Impact of a Hygiene Curriculum and the Installation of Simple Handwashing and Drinking Water Stations in Rural Kenyan Primary Schools on Student Health and Hygiene Practices

Improving Knowledge on The Prevention of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Among Elementary School Students in Jakarta, Indonesia: A Quasi Experimental Study

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