Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices about Malaria and Its Control in Rural Northwest Tanzania

Table 2

Reported knowledge on malaria by households respondents (multiple response), in Geita district, northwest Tanzania.

Variable	n	%
Heard of malaria	364	99.7
Source of information
Home	61	16.7
Radio program	70	19.1
Hospital/dispensaries	35	9.6
Health workers	1	0.3
I suffered from malaria	196	53.6
Others	3	0.8
Mode of transmission
By bites of any mosquito	180	49.1
By bites of mosquito which has bitten a malaria patient	63	17.2
Others	31	8.5
Do not know	92	25.1
Causes of malaria
Germs	30	8.2
Dirt stagnant water	16	4.4
Mosquito bites	174	47.5
Plasmodium organisms	22	6
Does not know	124	33.9
Mosquito breeding areas
Stagnant water	199	63.4
Tall grasses	81	25.8
Bushes	29	9.2
Others	5	1.6