Field Unit, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Raipur, India.
ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, India.
Front Public Health. 2022 Mar 3;9:774864. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.774864. eCollection 2021.
For the success of any program, its implementation plays a crucial role. Community health workers are of immense importance for malaria elimination from India.
This study was aimed to assess the knowledge gaps and the responsible factors for mitanins' knowledge on various aspects of and problems faced by mitanins during their work.
Structured interviewer-based questionnaire was used to collect the data, and ordinal regression was applied to analyze the data.
Only 26% of the mitanins were having a good knowledge attitude and practices (KAP) score about malaria. Malaria endemicity of area [odds ratio (OR) = 0.26, 95% CI = 0.13-0.50), < 0.001] and education (OR = 0.35, 95% CI = 0.18-0.69, = 0.002) were the two significant factors affecting the KAP of mitanins.
This study shows that prioritizing education while recruiting the mitanins and training them in the low endemic areas with a focus on malaria, which will help achieve the malaria elimination goal.
任何项目的成功，其实施都起着至关重要的作用。社区卫生工作者对于印度消除疟疾具有重要意义。
本研究旨在评估疟疾控制工作者在疟疾各个方面的知识差距及其相关因素，以及他们在工作中面临的问题。
采用基于结构化访谈的问卷收集数据，并应用有序回归分析数据。
仅有 26%的疟疾控制工作者对疟疾具有良好的知识态度和实践（KAP）评分。疟疾流行地区（比值比 [OR] = 0.26，95%置信区间 [CI] = 0.13-0.50）和教育水平（OR = 0.35，95% CI = 0.18-0.69，p = 0.002）是影响疟疾控制工作者 KAP 的两个重要因素。
本研究表明，在招募疟疾控制工作者时，应优先考虑教育，并在疟疾低流行地区对他们进行培训，重点关注疟疾，这将有助于实现消除疟疾的目标。
