Anambra State Post-Campaign Net Tracking Survey

Anambra LLIN campaign evaluation
Only 1.2% (95%CI 0.6 to 2.3%) out of the 663 households that said they had received messages
on nets could not recall any of them and there was a very close correlation between the number
of sources mentioned and the number of messages remembered (Figure 12) indicating the need
for multi-channel communication approaches in order to get information across.
Figure 13: Correlation between information sources and messages remembered
The content of the messages remembered is presented in Table 17. Interestingly, use of nets
was not the main message even when “use the net” and “use the net every night” were
combined (20.4%; 95%CI 16.8 to 24.5%), but most frequently remembered was that “nets
prevent malaria” with 27.6% (95%CI 21.6 to 34.5%). Also relatively frequent was “hang the net”
with 19.3% (95%CI 15.0 to 24.5%) and “wash and dry before use”, 15.9% (95%CI 12.5% to
20.1%). No major variation by background was observed except a statistically significantly higher
remembering of “hang the net” in rural areas (p=0.02).
Table 17: Messages on net use remembered by respondents and their content
Background Any # of
Messages mentioned
characteristic message messages Use net Value Hang Use Net
if any
net net every prevents
Residence
night malaria
Urban 62.5% 1.4 6.6% 7.4% 19.5% 9.3% 27.3%
Rural
Pre-Campaign
71.1% 1.4 7.5% 7.5% 19.1% 18.2% 27.9%
LLIN>15% 65.2% 1.4 5.8% 5.6% 17.1% 13.0% 29.6%
LLIN