DETERMINANTS OF MALARIA DISEASE IN CASE OF ATAT HOSPITAL

Abstract

Malaria is the most deadly disease caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes, called "malaria vectors". It remains to be a major challenge to public health and socio-economic development worldwide and in sub Saharan Africa in particular. However, there is still a paucity of information on the occurrence of malaria at the study area. The objective of this study going to identify determinant of malaria disease and related risk factors in Atat Hospital. The data were analyzed by statistical software packages such as SPSS.Both descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyze the data (i.e. Chi- square and Logistic regression analysis).As the result and discussion, 71.1% have malaria negative and the rest 28.9% have malaria positive. In chi square test of association some variables such as season and Types of species diagnosed has association with Status of malaria. Also from the result of binary logistic regression model; explanatory variables such as: season, residence and Types of species diagnosed are significant variable.This were due to problem of their treatment seeking behavior, in that there is an extreme delay in early diagnoses which leads to the progress of severe and finally leads to high risk of malaria disease. So in order to address this problem, the governmental and non-governmental organizations those working in the areas should give due attention specially, on continuous awareness creation of early diagnoses and treatment to the health facility