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Mass media exposure and its impact on malaria prevention behaviour among adult women in sub-Saharan Africa: results from malaria indicator surveys

Overview of attention for article published in Global Health Research and Policy, July 2018
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Title
Mass media exposure and its impact on malaria prevention behaviour among adult women in sub-Saharan Africa: results from malaria indicator surveys
Published in
Global Health Research and Policy, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s41256-018-0075-x
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Authors

Sanni Yaya, Olalekan A. Uthman, Agbessi Amouzou, Ghose Bishwajit

Abstract

Mass media exposure plays a pivotal role in health communication and adoption of a healthy lifestyle. In this study, we aimed to measure the prevalence of malaria prevention behaviour among adult women in eight malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and assess the influence of mass media exposure in the adoption of those behaviours. For this study, we collected cross-sectional data on 46,822 women aged between 15 and 49 years from the Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS) conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda. As the outcome variable, malaria prevention behaviour was proxied by the use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and uptake of antimalarial drugs in last pregnancy. The overall prevalence of sleeping under ITN and that of taking antimalarial drug during the last pregnancy was respectively 67.9% (95%CI = 66.6-69.2) and 72.8% (95%CI = 71.3-74.2). However, there were disparities in the prevalence of using ITN and antimalarial drug use across the study countries. In the multivariable regression analysis, not receiving malaria related information from radio, poster/billboards, community events, and health workers were found to be significantly associated with reduction in the odds of using ITN the previous night. For the use of antimalarial drugs during last pregnancy, the odds were 23% [OR = 0.773, 95%CI = 0.625-0.956] lower for those who did not receive malaria information on radio compared with those who received. These findings indicate a potentially important role of malaria information received through mass media on utilisation of ITN among women in SSA. More research is needed to explore the factors that limit the accessibility to malaria information through mass media.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 105 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 14%
Researcher 11 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Lecturer 5 5%
Other 5 5%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 43 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 14 13%
Social Sciences 12 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 4%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 45 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 November 2022.
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