ArticleMalaria journal2019
Caregiver exposure to malaria social and behaviour change messages can improve bed net use among children in an endemic country: secondary analysis of the 2015 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey.
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- Impact of mass media campaigns on knowledge of malaria prevention measures among pregnant mothers in Uganda: a propensity score-matched analysis.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- A malaria knowledge, attitudes and practice survey in a rural community in Guinea.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- Factors associated with ownership and utilization of insecticide treated nets among children under five years in sub-Saharan Africa.BMC public health · 2022Review
- End Malaria Faster: Taking Lifesaving Tools Beyond "Access" to "Reach" All People in Need.Global health, science and practice · 2022Article
- Malaria prevention knowledge, attitudes, and practices in Zambezia Province, Mozambique.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Individual and contextual correlates of mosquito net use among women in Nigeria.Malaria journal · 2020Article
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backgroundTo reduce the malaria burden in Nigeria, the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) 2014‒2020 calls for the scale-up of prevention and treatment interventions, including social and behaviour change (SBC). SBC interventions can increase awareness and improve the demand for and uptake of malaria interventions. However, there is limited evidence supporting the implementation of SBC interventions to improve key malaria behaviours, such as insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) use, among children in Nigeria.
methodsUsing data from 2015 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey, this study used multiple logistic regression to assess the relationship between caregiver exposure to malaria messages and ITN use among children under five.
resultsCaregiver exposure to ITN-related messages was significantly associated with ITN use among children under five (odds ratio [OR] = 1.63, p < 0.001).
conclusionsThe results suggest that caregiver exposure to topic-specific SBC messages improves the use of ITNs among children. Given these results, Nigeria should strive to scale up SBC interventions to help increase ITN use among children in line with the objectives of the NMSP. Further evidence is needed to determine which SBC interventions are the most effective and scalable in Nigeria.
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