Anambra State Post-Campaign Net Tracking Survey

Knowledge, perceptions and intentions
Anambra LLIN campaign evaluation
Six questions were asked regarding the knowledge of the negative effects malaria can have on
people’s life and respondents were asked to state their level of agreement to these statements
and results are shown in Table 18. All statements received very similar responses with about
90% expressing some form of agreement and around 60% strongly agreeing which resulted in a
mean score of 1.4 to 1.5. Only the statement on “malaria is the most serious health problem in
my community” reached higher levels of agreement with 81.3% strongly agreeing.
The situation differed somewhat for six statements that probed the confidence of the
respondents to take certain actions (Table 19). Here the level of confidence was generally less
the agreement to the previous statements but also differed between the actions presented. The
greatest confidence to take action was expressed for protecting the family and especially the
children from malaria with 93.8% saying they could definitely or probably take action while the
least confidence occurred for the one action which involved spending money, “save enough
money to buy nets for all children”, with 78.4% expressing any positive intentions but 6.4%
saying they definitely could not do that.
Table 18: Knowledge of malaria – level of agreement to statements
Question Level of agreement Mean
Strongly Somewhat Somewhat Strongly score*
agree agree disagree disagree
Malaria is the most serious health
problem in my community
81.3% 15.6% 2.8% 0.4% 1.8
People in this community only get
malaria during the rainy season
62.1% 27.9% 9.0% 1.0% 1.4
Each year, many children in this
community get malaria
64.2% 31.0% 4.6% 0.2% 1.5
Malaria can prevent me from working
and earning money
62.4% 27.6% 9.0% 1.0% 1.4
Malaria can prevent my children from
attending school
66.8% 26.5% 6.7% 0.04% 1.5
Treating malaria can be expensive 63.5% 26.1% 8.9% 1.4% 1.4
* agreement scored 1 and 2, disagreement -1 and -2
Table 19: Action taken for malaria prevention – level of confidence
Question Level of agreement Mean
Definitely Probably Probably Definitely score*
could could could not could not
Obtain enough bed nets for all your
children.
56.0% 32.6% 8.7% 2.5% 1.3
Hang a bed net above your children’s
sleeping places.
52.8% 36.2% 9.5% 1.4% 1.3
Protect yourself and your children from
getting malaria.
63.6% 30.2% 5.2% 1.0% 1.5
Save enough money to obtain nets for
all your children.
40.0% 38.4% 15.2% 6.4% 0.9
Sleep under a net every night of the
year.
47.8% 42.5% 8.2% 1.6% 1.3
Get all of your children to sleep under a
net every night of the year.
49.3% 38.1% 11.4% 1.2% 1.2
* action level scored 1 and 2 positive, -1 and -2 for negative
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