Table 5.
Respondent's distribution of practice of malaria prevention
| Variables | n | Percent (%) |
| Sleep under ITN the night before the study | ||
| yes | 293 | 77.5 |
| no | 85 | 22.5 |
| What do you do to prevent from malaria | ||
| Always sleep under ITNs | 247 | 65.2 |
| Clean my environment | 255 | 67.3 |
| Use chemoprophylaxis | 51 | 13.5 |
| Filling | 116 | 30.6 |
| Clearing the bushes and grass around the house | 40 | 10.6 |
| IRS | 8 | 2.1 |
| Avoid sleep in humid area | 379 | 100 |
| Burn wood and dung in my house | 22 | 5.8 |
| Bed net utilization outside the house | ||
| Households with family members sleeping outside | 218 | 57.5 |
| Family members sleep outside and use ITN | 160 | 42.2 |
| Reasons of not using bed net | ||
| It causes shortness of breath | 12 | 3.2 |
| No availability of mosquito | 20 | 5.3 |
| Old bed net | 11 | 2.9 |
| Allergy | 5 | 1.3 |
| No bed net | 27 | 7.1 |
| Other reason | 36 | 9.5 |
| If you get malaria signs and symptoms, what do you do? | ||
| Go to health facility | 369 | 97.4 |
| Go to community health agent (CHA) | 21 | 5.5 |
| Take traditional medicine | 14 | 3.7 |
| Other | 6 | 1.7 |
| In the last malaria season environmental sanitation | ||
| Family was involved in the sanitation activities | 266 | 70.2 |
| House being sprayed using IRS | 349 | 92.1 |
| House being painted after sprayed | 25 | 6.6 |
*Indicates (p <0.05)