Table 2.
Knowledge about the causes and prevention of malaria
| Year of survey | 2004 | 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of households % | Number of households % | |||
| Causes of malaria | ||||
| Mosquito bite | 21 | 3.4 | 477 | 93.9 |
| Other causes | 169* | 27.4 | 16 | 3.1 |
| Do not know | 427 | 69.2 | 15 | 3.0 |
| Total | 617 | 100 | 508 | 100 |
| How to prevent | ||||
| Mosquito net or indoor residual spraying | 6 | 1.0 | 458 | 90.2 |
| See doctor or buy antimalarial | 26 | 4.2 | 14 | 2.8 |
| Buy local herb medicine | 45 | 7.3 | 0 | 0 |
| Use prophylaxis | 1 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.6 |
| Clean the breeding area | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Other answers | 39† | 6.3 | 5 | 1.0 |
| Do not know | 499 | 80.9 | 28 | 5.5 |
| Total | 617 | 100 | 508 | 100 |
* Premature foods (n = 67), cold weather (24), rain (6), witchcraft (9), or a combination of these factors (63).
† Eat matured food (n = 16), wear warm clothes (8), a combination of both (4), and unpreventable (11).