Table 5.

Practices toward the control and prevention of kala-azar among study participants in Madhepura district of Bihar, 2014 (percentage) (N = 353)

Variables	Categories	Percentage	Frequency
Prevention of sand flies*†	Use coil	14.7	40
	Create smoke	87.9	240
	Mosquito net	5.1	15
	Others	4.0	11
	No	7.4	22
Use of bed net	Don’t have bed net	25.0	89
	Have, but don’t use	2.5	9
	Have, all members use‡	39.9	141
	Have, some members use§	32.2	114
Sleep outdoors in
Rainy season	Yes	3.4	12
	No‡	96.6	341
Winter season	Yes	5.1	18
	No‡	94.9	335
Summer season‖	Yes	50.1	177
	No	49.9	176
Inside house/premises
Bamboo plantation	Yes	89.2	315
	No‡	10.8	38
Marshy land	Yes	46.5	164
	No‡	53.6	189
Vegetation	Yes	64.8	228
	No‡	35.2	124
Damp area	Yes	51.0	180
	No‡	49.0	173
Practice	Good practice	37.7	133
	Poor practice	62.3	220

Other responses were scored 0.

^*Multiple responses.

^†Use of any preventive method has been given a score of 1 in index.

^‡Response was given a score of 1 in index.

^§Response was given a score of 0.5 in index.

^‖Not considered in index.