Primary school students' poetic malaria messages from Jimma zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: a qualitative content analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The engagement of schools in malaria control is an emerging strategy. Little is known about the involvement of students in the development of malaria messages. This study evaluated the message content of primary school students' malaria poems.

Methods

A qualitative content analysis was conducted to explore malaria messages conveyed in poems produced by students. Twenty poems were purposively selected from twenty schools across rural villages in five districts of the Jimma Zone. Data were analyzed using Atlas.ti version 7.1.4 software. The message contents were quantified in terms of frequency, and including metaphors, presented using central themes, categories, and supportive quotations.

Results

A total of 602 malarial contents were generated, and organized

SUBMITTER: Kebede Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8447558 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature