Comparison Of Three Health Education Methods In Increasing The Knowledge About Malaria

This study was conducted in Adam i tu lu ,,'oreda, ethiopia, fromrnSeptemher 199J to January )Q94 . Thc general objective of the studyrnwas to d e termine the effectiveness a nd e fficiency of three healthrneducation methods i n increasing the' knowledge of the communityrnabout t he symptoms. CllU[,e, transmis si on. trcatment and prevent i onrnof malaria. The ba se l ine s urvey of the s tudy population revealedrnthat thel'e is a profound lack of knowledge about ma l aria. 70"f. ofrnthe study populAtion mentio ned one or more symptoms of malaria: nornone knew the cause of malar i a : on l y 8% of the respondents respondedrnthat mosquitoes transmit ma l aria; 92~~ o f t hem be I i eved t ha trnmalaria i s not preventab l e; Dnd 93.3% said t hat malaria has modernrnt r eatment. Three health education met hods: drama. house-to-housernconversation Dnd schoo l teac h ing, each supp l emented with l eaflets,rnwere i mp l emented 'in an effort to increase the awareness of therns t udy community about malaria. After three months o f interventionrnperiod, the post-test result ::;howed that there was a sign ificantrnincrease in all the knowledge item s about mal a ria. fin a lly. thernmost effective and the erficient health educa tion method was foundrnto be the house-to-ho use conversation

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