Woldu Dawit
University of Houston Clear Lake College of Human Sciences and Humanities, Anthropology and Cross-cultural and Global Studies.
Afr Health Sci. 2024 Sep;24(3):90-97. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v24i3.13.
Women have an increased risk of contracting malaria in Kenya and the developing world because of gender roles and the cultural belief systems about disease progression and treatment. Cultural belief systems about illness progression have important implications for gender-based health intervention.
The main objective of this research is to explore how rice farming Kikuyu ethnic group in the Mwea division of central Kenya cultural beliefs about malaria into typhoid progression. It also aims to examine the association between gender and malaria into typhoid progression cultural belief system.
The study employs cross-sectional study design (N=250). Variables related to demographic and cultural beliefs on malaria into typhoid progression were collected using a structured questionnaire.
More than 62% of women and 47% of men interviewed adhere to malaria into typhoid progression belief system. Multivariable logistic analysis shows women are more than twice as likely than men to believe in malaria into typhoid progression (aOR 2.15; 95% CI 1.21, 3.79, p < 0.009).
The study demonstrates the underlying cultural factors related to the gender disparity in the appropriate knowledge on cultural belief system of malaria into typhoid progression which could influence the overall women's health outcomes in developing countries.
在肯尼亚及发展中世界，由于性别角色以及关于疾病发展和治疗的文化信仰体系，女性感染疟疾的风险增加。关于疾病发展的文化信仰体系对基于性别的健康干预具有重要影响。
本研究的主要目的是探讨肯尼亚中部姆韦亚分区种植水稻的基库尤族关于疟疾向伤寒发展的文化信仰。它还旨在研究性别与疟疾向伤寒发展的文化信仰体系之间的关联。
本研究采用横断面研究设计（N = 250）。使用结构化问卷收集与疟疾向伤寒发展的人口统计学和文化信仰相关的变量。
超过62%的受访女性和47%的受访男性坚持疟疾向伤寒发展的信仰体系。多变量逻辑分析显示，女性相信疟疾向伤寒发展的可能性是男性的两倍多（调整后比值比2.15；95%置信区间1.21，3.79，p < 0.009）。
该研究表明，在疟疾向伤寒发展的文化信仰体系的适当知识方面，存在与性别差异相关的潜在文化因素，这可能会影响发展中国家女性的整体健康状况。
