Table 4.
Respondents’ awareness |
Residency |
Region |
Total |
|||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rural | Urban | Upper Nile | Bahr el Ghazal | Equatoria | ||
Malaria transmitted by mosquito bite |
53.7% |
73.5% |
53.3% |
60.4% |
60.2% |
58.0% |
(95% CI: 51.9–55.5) |
(95% CI: 71.9–75.0) |
(95% CI: 51.5–55.1) |
(95% CI: 58.7–62.1) |
(95% CI: 58.5–62.0) |
(95% CI: 56.2–59.8) |
|
Sleeping under a mosquito nets to prevent malaria |
29.8% |
50.5% |
30.0% |
28.0% |
43.1% |
34.2% |
(95% CI: 28.2–31.5) |
(95% CI: 48.7–52.3) |
(95% CI: 28.4–31.7) |
(95% CI: 26.4–29.6) |
(95% CI: 41.4–44.9) |
(95% CI: 32.5–35.9) |
|
Taking preventive medicine to avoid malaria |
13.3% |
7.4% |
7.7% |
20.9% |
8.6% |
12% |
(95% CI: 12.1–14.5) |
(95% CI: 6.5–8.4) |
(95% CI: 6.8–8.7) |
(95% CI: 19.5–22.4) |
(95% CI: 7.7–9.7) |
(95% CI: 10.9–13.2) |
|
Taking the right anti-malaria as treatment | 37.8% |
54.2% |
43.2% |
34.1% |
44.7% |
41.3% |
(95% CI: 36.1–39.5) | (95% CI: 52.4–56.0) | (95% CI: 41.5–45.0) | (95% CI: 32.8 –36.2) | (95% CI: 42.9–46.5) | (95% CI: 39.6–43.1) |
N = number, F = Frequency.