Research Paper
Medical Science
E-ISSN No : 2454-9916 | Volume : 8 | Issue : 7 | Jul 2022
DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF FAMILIES REGARDING PREVENTIVE MEASURES OF MALARIA IN URBAN COMMUNITY AREA VARANASI Ranjana (Research Guide), Associate Professor and HOD of Medical Surgical Nursing, Apex College of Nursing, Varanasi, India. ABSTRACT Malaria is one of the major public health problems in developing countries. Recent estimate indicate that 300 to 500 million clinical cases and 1.5 to 2.7 million deaths occur due to it. Malaria is a life threating disease caused by parasite of plasmodium namely plasmodium falciparum, plasmodium vivax, and plasmodium malaria and plasmodium ovale. Preventive measures can reduce the breading of parasite vector. The enhancement of nursing students knowledge regarding malaria prevention can reduced the malaria effects in community through health education during clinical postings. A descriptive study was conducted in urban community. The Participants are selected randomly. The sample size is 100. Where the 10% participants have the good knowledge, 50% have the average knowledge and remaining 40% have the poor knowledge regarding malaria prevention. A significant association was found between demographic variables and families' knowledge. KEYWORDS: Knowledge, Malaria, Prevention, Family. INTRODUCTION: Among the many health problem in India is communicable diseases are the major health problems which are the transmitted one to another through direct and indirect contact with causative agent. The diseases which are indirectly transmitted by mosquito are dengue, malaria and chikunguniya. Malaria is one of the common diseases of community. Malaria is transmitted through the bite of infected female mosquito anopheles. The human host, the environment and the climate condition that may affect the abundance and survival of mosquitoes such as, rainfall patterns, temperature and humidity with the peak during and just after rainy season. The disease characterised by fever, chills, rigor, headache, vomiting, fatigue. These symptoms will appear seven days or more after the infective mosquito bite. It is diagnosed by blood smear test and can be treated with antimalarial drugs. OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the level of knowledge of families regarding preventive measures of malaria. 2.
To find out the association between level of knowledge with selected demographic variables.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: Research design was consisted a descriptive research design approach to assess the knowledge regarding preventive measures of malaria. The sample size is 100 family of urban community. The samples were selected by using non-probability, purposive sampling technique. The development of tools involved steps of test construction i.e. preparing the blue print, selection of items. Content validity of questionnaire was done and modifications were done according to the suggestion given by experts. Pre testing and reliability of tools were done. The tools were found to be reliable. The data were collected by using structural knowledge questionnaire. The structural questionnaire consisting of two sections; Section I: demographic data and Section II: consisted of 12 knowledge questionnaire with maximum score of 12. RESULT: The analysis of data was based on the objectives and hypothesis. Descriptive statistics were used to mean, frequency and percentage with tabular presentation of data. Chi squire test was used to test the hypothesis and significance difference in the level of knowledge of students regarding preventive measures of malaria. Objective 1: Among 100 respondents 10% were having good knowledge, 50% having average and remaining 40% having poor knowledge.
Figure 1: Pie diagram showing the level of knowledge of families. Objective 2: Association between level of knowledge of families with selected demographic variables. Table 1: Frequency and knowledge distribution of sample according to socio-demographical variables. Distribution of demographic variables, N= 100 S. No. Demographic variables Option
Number Percentage
1
10-20 years
20
20%
21-30 years 31-40 years
40 20
40% 20%
≥41 years
20
20%
Male Female Hindu
90 10 90
90% 10% 90%
Muslim
10
10%
Christian
0
0%
Other
0
0%
Joint
90
90%
Nuclear
10
10%
High school
40
40%
Intermediate
20
20%
Age
2
Gender
3
Religion
4 5
6
Types of family Educational status
Marital status
Graduate
40
40%
Illiterate Married
0 70
0% 70%
Unmarried
30
30%
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