Table 3. Knowledge, practices, perceptions and attitudes towards malaria of participants in relation to perception on asymptomatic malaria infections (n = 281).

Characteristics	Total	Possibility of asymptomatic malaria infections		p-value
	Number (%)	Yes (n = 40)	No (n = 241)
Did you sleep under the mosquito net last night?
Yes	256 (91.1)	38 (95)	218 (90.5)	0.27
No	25 (8.9)	2 (5)	23 (9.5)
If Yes, how often do you sleep under the mosquito net?
Everyday	247 (96.5)	35 (92.1)	212 (97.2)	0.13
Sometimes (>2–3 days in a week)	9 (3.5)	3 (7.9)	6 (2.8)
How many mosquito nets do you have at your home?
≤2	156 (55.5)	23 (57.5)	133 (55.2)	0.46
≥3	125 (44.5)	17 (42.5)	108 (44.8)
Do you think you can get malaria if anybody in your family/neighbor has malaria?
Yes	164 (58.4)	27 (67.5)	137 (56.8)	0.26
No	83 (29.5)	11 (27.5)	72 (29.9)
Don't know	34 (12.1)	2 (5)	32 (13.3)
If Yes, how? (n = 164)*
Touch	75 (45.7)	8 (29.6)	67 (48.9)	0.05
Air	11 (6.7)	0	11 (8)	0.12
Mosquito	108 (65.9)	21 (77.8)	87 (63.5)	0.11
Water	33 (20.1)	4 (14.8)	29 (21.2)	0.32
Food	34 (20.7)	4 (14.8)	30 (21.9)	0.29
How do we know if a person has malaria?*
Blood	178 (63.3)	30 (75)	148 (61.4)	0.06
Fever	73 (26)	14 (35)	59 (24.5)	0.11
Health worker	90 (32)	11 (27.5)	79 (32.8)	0.32
Other	33 (11.7)	2 (5)	31 (12.9)	0.11
Is malaria a deadly disease?
Yes	265 (94.3)	40 (100)	225 (93.4)	0.24
No	12 (4.3)	0	12 (5)
Don't know	4 (1.4)	0	4 (1.7)
Are you scared of malaria?
Yes	277 (98.6)	39 (97.5)	238 (98.8)	0.58
No	3 (1.1)	1 (2.5)	2 (0.4)
Don't know	1 (0.4)	0	1 (0.4)
Can malaria be cured by medicine?
Yes	275 (97.9)	38 (95)	237 (98.3)	0.4
No	3 (1.1)	1 (2.5)	2 (0.8)
Don't know	3 (1.1)	1 (2.5)	2 (0.8)

*Multiple answers were possible and percentage does not add to 100, analyses were made against "yes" and "no".