Prevalence of Malaria Infection and Appropriate Treatment for Uncomplicated (simple) Malaria among Primary School Children in Nasarawa State.
| dc.contributor.author | Abubakar, Mahmud | |
| dc.contributor.author | Samaila, Ishaya Kunden | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-14T05:43:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-14T05:43:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-12-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study was designed to investigate malaria prevalence and rates of parasiteamia among primary school children in Nasarawa State, North-Central Nigeria. The assessed the prevalence of the disease and emphasized the importance parasitological diagnosis in malaria case management among the primary school children in Nasarawa State. A list of all registered primary schools in the state was obtained from the State's Ministry of Education. At the LGA level, the schools were stratified into public (i.e. government-owned) and privately owned schools. At the second stage of the sampling, only schools with 'standard' school clinic were systematically randomly chosen for this study in each of the sampled LGA.Malaria parasite and degree of anaemia were assessed in 588 selected primary school children, using standard parasitological and haematological methods of diagnosis. Data analysis was done using Microsoft Excell 2010 and SPSS version 17.0. Data are presented as proportion and frequencies, Z-score were used to compare differenes betwenn public and private schools.Clinical examination was done to determine spleen size. About 12.8% (p = 0.00) of the pupils were positive for malaria parasites, 48.6% were anaemic and 11.3% had spleen enlargement (p = 0.02). Also 4.9% of the study pupils had all three of the symptom. This study ascertained a significant association between malaria infections, anaemia, and splenomegally and identified the study area as a high risk area for malaria.Use of Artemisinin-based Combination Theraphy (ACT) within 24 hours of fever onset is found to be very effctine in early recognition and improved management of uncomplicatd (simple) malaria in a resource limited setting like Nasarawa State. There is need to enhance malaria control efforts through the provision of Rapid Diagnostic Test (RUT) kits in schools to reduce the level of morbidity among children in the study area so as to make them more effective at school. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Abubakar, M. & Samaila, I.K. (2016). Prevalence of Malaria Infection and Appropriate Treatment for Uncomplicated (simple) Malaria among Primary School Children in Nasarawa State. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/4782 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of Geography, Nasarawa State State University Keffi | en_US |
| dc.subject | Malaria, prevalence, parasiteamia, morbidity, Nasarawa State | en_US |
| dc.title | Prevalence of Malaria Infection and Appropriate Treatment for Uncomplicated (simple) Malaria among Primary School Children in Nasarawa State. | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |