Table 3.

Malaria preventive behavior of the study participants

Characteristics	Number (n = 391)	Percentage
Frequency of bed net use
Everyday	245	62.7
Often	78	19.9
Sometimes	28	7.2
Never	40	10.2
Frequency of mosquito repellent skin lotion use
Everyday	4	1.0
Often	10	2.6
Sometimes	31	7.9
Never	339	86.7
Unknown	7	1.8
Experience of taking anti-malaria medicine for malaria prevention in Lao PDR
Yes	11a	2.8
No	375	95.9
Unknown	5	1.3
Frequency of taking the anti-malaria medicine (n = 11)
Everyday	0	0.0
Often	0	0.0
Sometimes	4	36.4
Rarely	6	54.5
Unknown	1	9.1

^aThree people took quinine as the medicine, whereas the remaining 8 people did not remember the name of the medicine