Impact of Intervention Practices on Malaria Treatment Outcomes Among Patients in Bushenyi District, Uganda
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Date
2021
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Research Square
Abstract
Malaria remains a major vector borne disease causing both mortalities and morbidities in the world. Uganda
as a country has currently scaled out major campaigns to reduce and eliminate the disease using different
interventions. However, there is no clear data on the impact of such interventions on malaria treatment
outcomes. Therefore, this study was aimed at assessing the impact of malaria intervention practices on
Artemether- Lumefantrine (AL) treatment outcomes among the residents of Bushenyi district, Uganda, a high
intensity malaria transmission area.
Methods
This was a descriptive cross-sectional study carried out among 184 study participants for a period of one
year (August 2017 to August 2018) in four selected health centers in Bushenyi district, Uganda. The
investigative methods used included a researcher administered questionnaire, laboratory and clinical
evaluations of participants. Data analysis was done by using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS
version 10 windows) for descriptive statistics.
Results
Statistically significant factors for treatment outcome at p ≤0.05 were; practicing indoor residual spraying
(IRS) at home (𝑃 = 0.001; CI), source of prescription (𝑃 = 0.018; CI), finishing dosage (𝑃 = 0.006; CI),
frequency of malaria infection (𝑃 = 0.028; CI), Frequency of antimalaria usage (𝑃 = 0.042; CI) and sleeping
under insecticide treated nets (ITNs) (𝑃 = 0.039; CI) respectively.
Conclusions
IRS and ITNs were found to be the major intervention practice of malaria reduction after treatment with
ACTs.
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Keywords
Treatment, Interventions, Malaria, Bushenyi
Citation
Maniga, J. N., Atuhaire, D. K., & Mugasa, C. M. (2021). Impact of Intervention Practices on Malaria Treatment Outcomes Among Patients in Bushenyi District, Uganda. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-204112/v1