Assessment of a treatment guideline to improve home management of malaria in children in rural south-west Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many Nigerian children with malaria are treated at home. Treatments are mostly incorrect, due to caregivers' poor knowledge of appropriate and correct dose of drugs. A comparative study was carried out in two rural health districts in southwest Nigeria to determine the effectiveness of a guideline targeted at caregivers, in the treatment of febrile children using chloroquine.

Methods

Baseline and post intervention knowledge, attitude and practice household surveys were conducted. The intervention strategy consisted of training a core group of mothers ("mother trainers") in selected communities on the correct treatment of malaria and distributing a newly developed treatment guideline to each household. "Mother trainers" disseminated the educational messages about m

SUBMITTER: Ajayi IO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2268701 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature