Awareness and Malaria Prevention Practices in a Rural Community in the Ho Municipality, Ghana
Table 2
Awareness on malaria spread, symptoms, and treatment.
Variable
Attributes
Frequency (n=246)
Percent (%)
Awareness of malaria
Yes
242
98
No
6
2
Malaria is transmissible from infected person
Yes
100
40
No
148
60
Common symptoms of malaria
Fever
215
87
Nausea
126
51
Headache
179
72
Body aches
167
67
Vomiting
181
73
Shivering
219
88
Name of vector that transmits malaria
Female anopheles
187
75
Male anopheles
7
3
No idea
54
22
Medicines against malaria
Chloroquine
125
50
Quine
173
70
No idea
2
1
Others
22
9
Other forms of malaria treatment
ACT
21
96
Artemether lumefantrine
1
5
Malaria is a/an
Ordinary disease
96
39
Deadly disease
132
53
No idea
20
8
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