tailieunhanh - The effect of health education intervention on the home management of malaria among the caregivers of children aged under 5 years in Ogun State, Nigeria

We located one study in health education that compared attention given to just text with attention given to text plus pictures. This study, by Delp and Jones [2], studied 234 patients coming to an emergency room with lacerations. After receiving treatment, but prior to discharge, patients were given printed instructions for caring for their wounds at home. Half were randomly given just text and the other half received the same text plus pictures that illustrated the information in the text. Fig. 1 shows examples of the text and pictures they used. Subjects were interviewed by phone three days later and asked if they had read the instructions (attention). If they had, they. | Fatungase et al. European Journal of Medical Research 2012 17 11 http content 17 1 11 RESEARCH EUROPEAN JOURNAL _ OF medical research Open Access The effect of health education intervention on the home management of malaria among the caregivers of children aged under 5 years in Ogun State Nigeria Kehinde O Fatungase1 Olorunfemi E Amoran1 2 and Kabir O Alausa1 Abstract Background Malaria is currently the most important cause of death and disability in children aged under 5 years in Africa. A health education interventional study of this nature is essential in primary control of an endemic communicable disease such as malaria. This study was therefore designed to determine the effect of health education on the home management of Malaria among the caregivers of children under 5 years old in Ogun State Nigeria. Methods The study design was a quasi-experimental study carried out in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State. A multistage random sampling technique was used in choosing the required samples for this study and a semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect relevant information. The intervention consisted of a structured educational program based on a course content adapted from the national malaria control program. A total of 400 respondents were recruited into the study with 200 each in both the experimental and control groups and were followed up for a period of 3 months when the knowledge and uptake of insecticide treated net was reassessed. Results There was no statistically significant differences observed between the experimental and control groups in terms of sociodemographic characteristics such as age P marital status P religion P and income P . The majority in both the experimental and control groups use arthemisinin-based combination therapy as first line home treatment drugs pre intervention. Post health education intervention the degree of change in the knowledge of referral signs and .