dc.contributor.author | Andinda, Maureen | |
dc.contributor.author | Mulogo, Edgar Mugema | |
dc.contributor.author | Turyakira, Eleanor | |
dc.contributor.author | Batwala, Vincent | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-17T07:44:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-17T07:44:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-03-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Andinda, M., Mulogo, E., Turyakira, E., & Batwala, V. (2019). Predictors of sleeping under cost-free mosquito bed nets among children under-five years in Mbarara, Uganda: a household survey. African health sciences, 19(1), 1353-1360. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/926 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: In 2010, Uganda Malaria Control Program distributed cost-free mosquito bed nets to households with children under-five years and pregnant women in selected sub-counties. We assessed the factors associated with sleeping under cost-free mosquito nets among children under-five years in Nyakayojo sub-county, Mbarara District, Uganda.
Methods: 381 households with at least a child under-five years and benefited from cost-free bed nets in Nyakayojo were randomly selected. Caregivers of children were interviewed using a questionnaire.
Results: 74% children slept under bed nets a night before the study. Children from households with ≥2 nets [aOR=1.75; 95% CI: 1.09-2.81, p=0.02], female caregiver [aOR=2.11; 95% CI: 1.16-3.79, p=0.01] and children from households that did not face problems (skin irritation, torn nets, suffocation, night sweating, nasal congestion and candle fire) when sleeping under bed nets [aOR=1.81; 95% CI: 1.10-2.98, p=0.02] were more likely to use nets. Main reason for not sleeping under a net was damage to the net (47.1%).
Conclusion: The proportion of children sleeping under nets was comparable to MDG target. Improvements in use of mosquito nets by children can be achieved through increasing number of nets in a household | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | African Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject | Cost-free | en_US |
dc.subject | Mosquito nets | en_US |
dc.subject | Use | en_US |
dc.subject | Under-five | en_US |
dc.subject | Uganda | en_US |
dc.title | Predictors of sleeping under cost-free mosquito bed nets among children under-five years in Mbarara, Uganda: a household survey | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |