Outpatient prevention counseling for malaria in northwest Nigeria: A single-centre descriptive cross-sectional study
- Author:
Godpower MICHAEL
1
;
Bukar GREMA
1
;
Zainab UMAR
1
;
Ibrahim ALIYU
2
;
Muhammad USMAN
3
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: Counseling; Healthcare provider; Malaria; Outpatients; Prevention
- From: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2020;13(5):214-220
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: To assess the proportion of caregivers of children and patients who received malaria prevention counseling from their healthcare provider at the time of outpatient malaria treatment. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study involving 353 randomly selected adult patients and caregivers of children attending the general and paediatric outpatient clinics of a Nigerian hospital. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect data on participants' sociodemographics and last malaria-episode characteristics. Chi square test and logistic regression analysis were used to determine factors associated with and predictors of receiving malaria-prevention counseling, respectively. Results: The mean age of the respondents was (33.6±9.6) years; they were predominantly females (257, 72.8%). Most had at least secondary-level education (304, 86.1%); the family size was mostly 1-6 persons in 202 (57.2%) respondents. They were treated mostly by doctors 256 (72.5%), but only 132 (37.4%) received malaria prevention counseling. Educational-level (χ
