ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND PRACTICE TOWARDS MALARIA PREVENTION IN SELECTED KEBELES OF, WORABE TOWN, SELTE ZONE,SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA, 20

Abstract

Background: Communities knowledge and practices on malaria disease often remainunobserved during malaria control efforts. In Ethiopia, many studies focus only on increasing community awareness on malaria prevention but an integrated manner of the awareness with the practical methods of malaria prevention has received little attention. And also since Malaria is considered to be one of the main global health problems, with it causing approximately 438,000 deaths in 2015, 90%of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and 70% are of children under the age of 5 year old. So we investigate the awareness and practice of the communities on malaria preventive measures in an integrated manner. Objective: To assess awareness and practice towards prevention and control of Malariain selected kebeles of worabe town. Methods: A cross-sectional study on assessment of community awareness and practices towards malaria was done among the residents of selected kebeles of worabe town. The selected sample of household was interviewed. Systematic random sampling technique was used on selecting the household. Data was collected by using Amharic questionnaire which was filled by Wolkite University undergraduate Nursing students. The respondents was either the heads of household or their spouses. Data was edited, compiled, and analyzed by the investigators manually by tallying and scientific calculator. Required Budget: Expected activities of this research proposal and their time frame have been out lined according to plan from March 1 to July 25 2021 and a total estimatedbudget required for this study was 4320 Bir