AWARENESS ABOUT THE RISK FACTOR AND COMPLICATIONS OF MALARIA IN ASSAM - A SURVEY

Abstract

Introduction: Malaria is one of the dangerous diseases around the world . Due to the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito . It can be transmitted from mother to unborn child through blood transfusion.Mainly in central China during the 1960s and 1970s, the malaria outbreak happened on a larger scale where it affected the public health and socio-economic development of China. In Northeastern states of India is the major cause for malaria where Plasmodium falciparum is the highest predominant parasite . Materials and Methods : A set of questionnaires was formed about awareness about the risk factor and complication of malaria in Assam and was distributed using google form link .To minimise the sampling bias to check the validity, internal and external, to minimise error in questions, avoid leading questions.We have distributed our survey to 100 people in Assam . We have used SPSS for statistical software . Result :75.5 %  are aware  of malaria disease but 24.5 % are still not aware . 44.55 % say the symptoms are fever as majority , 42.5 % say chills , 9.09 % cause vomiting / Nausea , 1.82 % say loss of appetite . It shows how we can prevent the breeding of malaria, 44.55 % say by cleaning households, 18.18 % say drainage of stagnant water, 3.64 % don’ t know where malaria breeding takes place. .Conclusion :Within the limitations of the study we can conclude that the Assam population is having good Knowledge and awareness about malaria and risk factors .