Table 2.

Practices and attitudes of respondents towards control and preventive measures of malaria, Woreta town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2013

Characteristics	Categories	Frequency (%)
Malaria is preventable and curable	Yes	138 (95.8)
	No	6 (4.2)
Type of antimalarial drug used	Chloroquine	48 (33.3)
	Coartem®	68 (47.2)
	Other antimalarials	28 (19.4)
Use of at least one ITNs in the house	Yes	144 (100)
	No	0 (0)
Trend in the use of ITNs	Always	36 (25.0)
	Sometimes	98 (68.1)
	Do not use	10 (6.9)
Practice in malaria control activities	Draining logged water	83 (57.6)
	Environmental clearing	39 (27.1)
	Educating people	22 (15.3)