ArticleOpen research Africa2025
Economic empowerment and various preventive strategies play a role in reducing asymptomatic malaria towards the end of the rainy season.
Article in Open research Africa, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Economic empowerment and various preventive strategies play a role in reducing asymptomatic malaria towards the end of the rainy season.Open research Africa · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Asymptomatic malaria is responsible for persistent malaria transmission. The prevalence of malaria in children under 5 years in Anambra State, Nigeria, is declining. The sustained transmission of malaria threatens to reverse this decline, as indicated by the high severe malaria cases during the rainy transmission season. We ascertained the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria using the malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test (mRDT) and the determinants of asymptomatic malaria. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted at the end of the rainy season in November 2024 among 130 consenting apparently healthy adults aged 18 years and above residing in the Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State using a standardised self-administered questionnaire and a P. falciparum mRDT. The questionnaire sought information on the participants' sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors, malaria healthcare-seeking behaviour, use of malaria prevention measures, environmental conditions, and perceptions of malaria risk. A finger-prick was used for the mRDT kit. Data were analysed using Stata 17/BE. Binary logistic regression was used to identify the factors associated with asymptomatic malaria. Results: Of the 130 participants, 26.15% (34/130) were confirmed to be infected with Plasmodium falciparum. There was an overreliance on personal feelings for malaria diagnosis. Covering water containers around a house could be an effective protective measure against asymptomatic malaria. The odds (odds ratio (OR): 0.29/0.27, 95% (CI): 0.07/0.06 - 1.24) of having asymptomatic malaria were lower in those who agreed that 'the cost of malaria prevention tools, such as Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), insecticides and mosquito repellents, is reasonable' compared to those who did not. Conclusion: The prevalence of asymptomatic malaria among semi-immune adult participants residing in the Nnewi North Local Government Area (LGA) was 26.15%. Having the financial means to access resources for malaria prevention can lead to healthier behaviours and actions that reduce malaria transmission.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.