Open AccessPerception of bed nets and malaria prevention amongst users of insecticide-treated bed net in a semi-urban community in south-south Nigeria
Author(s) -
Best Ordinioha
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v15i4.37257
Subject(s) - bed nets , malaria , environmental health , mosquito net , malaria prevention , intervention (counseling) , medicine , perception , interview , health education , psychology , public health , psychiatry , population , health services , nursing , pathology , neuroscience , political science , law , immunology
Assessment of the use and success of insecticide treated nets (ITN) in malaria control requires a good insight into the people's perceptions of malaria and ITN. This study reports on the perception of mothers of malaria, malaria prevention, and ITN, before and one year after the ITNs was bought from a social marketing programme.