Table 2.
Caregivers knowledge on anti-malarials and malaria management
| Asante-Akim North Frequency (%) |
Asante-Akim South Frequency (%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What medicine will you recommend to a family member to give his/her child if the child had malaria? | N = 680 | N = 613 | |
| -Monotherapy | 117(17.3) | 186(30.4) | <0.001 |
| -ACTs | 470(69.1) | 314(51.2) | |
| -Other | 93(13.6) | 113(18.4) | |
| When buying an anti-malaria drug, do you look for any logo on the package of the medicine? | N = 706 | N = 659 | |
| Yes | 484(68.6) | 318(48.3) | p < 0.001 |
| No | 222(31.4) | 341(51.7) | |
| What logo do you look for? | N = 484 | N = 318 | |
| AMFm green leaf logo | 330(68.2) | 131(41.2) | p < 0.001 |
| Mosquito | 98(20.2) | 165(51.9) | |
| Mosquito in a target | 22(4.5) | 10(3.1) | |
| Others | 34(15.1) | 12(3.8) |