Knowledge and Misconceptions about Malaria among Pregnant Women in a Post-Conflict Internally Displaced Persons' Camps in Gulu District, Northern Uganda

Table 3

Malaria knowledge among pregnant women.

Variables	Frequencies	Percentage
	n	%
Mode of transmission
Cold weather	015	02
When you do not sleep under net	035	05
I do not know	039	05
From dirt	053	07
Mosquito bites	571	80
Perceive causes of malaria
Playing in rain	003	00
Eating sour things	006	01
Do not know	010	01
Cold weather	019	03
Cold food	028	04
Mosquito	683	91
Malaria consequences during pregnancy
Give birth to a low weight baby	016	02
Causes death	018	03
Foetal death	019	03
Premature delivery	026	04
Transmitted across placenta to the foetus	030	04
Causes anaemia	235	34
Causes abortion	348	50
Groups at risk of Malaria
People living with HIV/AIDS	012	02
Do not know	086	12
Children under 5 Years	287	40
Pregnant women	331	46