Knowledge and Prevalence of Malaria infection among students residing in Hostels of The Federal Polytechnic Ilaro.

Adewole, Adekanmi and faparusi, Foluso and Fantola, Fatimah (2017) Knowledge and Prevalence of Malaria infection among students residing in Hostels of The Federal Polytechnic Ilaro. In: Annual Conference of Parasitology and Public Health Society Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina, Katsina State September, 11-16, 2017, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina, Katsina State.

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Abstract

Malaria is a disease in which parasites of the genus Plasmodium are transmitted to human through the bite of female mosquito. The disease is known to be associated with fever, headache, chills, shivering, loss of appetite general body weakness and joint pains. In the study, samples size of 250 was obtained through stratified random sampling of the occupants of the five hostels within the campus. Volunteers were tested with RDT test Kit (CareStartTM HRP2(Pf)) with 13% of respondents(20/150) been positive of the infection. Respondents were asked questions on their general knowledge about malaria transmission, prevention and attitudes toward treatments. The 90% of the population sampled were able to link the cause of malaria with mosquito bite and dirty environment which aids the transmission of the infection. Knowledge about the use of new antimalarial drug was high with 95% of the respondents claimed to have used one or more of ACTs under different proprietary name. The use of ITN with evidence was poor (10%) while 75% claimed to own at least one but without evidence. The infections among the respondents that were not using ITN is significant correlated (p<0.05). In conclusion, knowledge about the transmission of malaria is high among the students but with poor attitudinal changes to combat the scourge and poor clinic attendance despite the claimed by majority of the students that the school has functional Health center.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Chemistry
Depositing User:	Mr Taiwo Egbeyemi
Date Deposited:	30 May 2020 12:46
Last Modified:	30 May 2020 12:46
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/137

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