Table 4.
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAPs) of study subjects with regards to malaria in the rural areas of Southeast of Yemen (n = 130)*
| Characteristics | Number (%) |
|---|---|
| Knowledge and attitudes | |
| Know malaria | 130 (100) |
| Malaria can kill | 53 (51) |
| Mode of transmission mentioned | |
| Mosquito bite | 130 (100) |
| Lack of sanitation | 4 (3) |
| Swamps | 19 (15) |
| Causes of malaria mentioned | |
| Flies | 42 (32) |
| Sleeping with infected person in the same bed | 106 (82) |
| Mosquito bite | 130 (100) |
| Drinking or playing in contaminated water | 0 (00) |
| The presence of sewage | 9(7) |
| Symptoms of malaria mentioned | |
| Fever | 53 (41) |
| Fever + shivering | 77 (59) |
| Serious for adult or children | |
| Children | 118 (91) |
| Equally serious | 12 (9) |
| Methods of prevention mentioned | |
| Cleaning the house or environment | 118 (91) |
| Sleeping under the mosquito net | 9 (7) |
| House spraying with insecticides | 3 (2) |
| Smoking house | 69 (53) |
| Practices | |
| Using insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs)a | 14 (11) |
| House spray with insecticide (IRS)# | 130 (100) |
| Not closing house windows | 130 (100) |
| Closing house doors | 130 (100) |
| Going to clinic when having fever | 22 (17) |
| Houses with wood roofs | 130 (100) |
| Houses with uncemented bricks wall | 93 (72) |
| Houses with mud wall | 37 (28) |
| Keeping uncovered water near houses | 130 (100) |
*KAPs were conducted on the head of the household.
#IRS was done by government before one year of the survey.
aEach house of the 14 houses had one ITNs.