Do health workers’ preferences influence their practices? Assessment of providers’ attitude and personal use of new treatment recommendations for management of uncomplicated malaria, Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15367657 |
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| Authors | Irene M Masanja (Ifakara Health Institute, corresponding author), Angelina M Lutambi (0000-0001-9755-6280, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute), Rashid Khatib (Ifakara Health Institute), Rashid A Khatib |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 956-956 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMC Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458 |
| Publisher | BioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-956 |
| PMID | 23137196 |
| PMCID | PMC3530431 |
| OpenAlex | W2121113196 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Following changes in malaria treatment recommendations, most health workers did not prefer the new antimalarial drug, and their preferences worsened over time. However, many of them still used the newly recommended drug for management of their own or family members' malaria episode. This indicates that, other factors than providers' attitude may have more influence in their personal treatment practices
Artemether/lumefantrine · Artemisinin · Biostatistics · Chloroquine · Environmental health · Family medicine · Health care · Logistic regression · Malaria · Plasmodium falciparum · Public health · Pyrimethamine · Socioeconomics · Sulfadoxine · Tanzania · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Malaria Research and Control · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Nursing · Immunology · Internal Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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