Malaria Treatment Practices Among Mothers in Guinea

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ID2545545
AutoresDeborah C Glik, Deborah Glik (0000-0002-2532-3661, autor correspondente), William B Ward, Andrew Gordon (0000-0002-4190-2268), Fassu Haba
Ano1989
Volume30
Fascículo4
Páginas421
Data de publicação1989-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Health and Social Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-1465 • E-ISSN: 2150-6000
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2136990
PMID2600385
OpenAlexW2017759568
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas7

A survey of mothers of young children in Guinea, West Africa (June-July 1988) suggests that individual, sociocultural, and structural factors influence the use of antimalarials for episodes of fever presumed to be malaria. A survey of 243 mothers was carried out in eight different sites (four urban and four rural) in two regions of the country. Among mothers interviewed, use of Western antimalarials for infants and children with fever was acceptable, but access to treatment was problematic. Mothers interviewed were less likely to use antimalarials during pregnancy, partly because of certain misconceptions about their effects and lack of access to the medication. Despite programmatic efforts to promote practices of presumptive treatment of fever among young children and chemoprophylaxis during pregnancy among mothers in towns and villages surveyed, variables associated with low use of antimalarials by mothers and their young children reflect important barriers to the implementation of child survival initiatives

Chemoprophylaxis · Environmental health · Malaria · Pregnancy · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Immunology · Malaria Research and Control · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Pediatrics