School-based social and behavior change communication

Ethiopia has shown incredible success in malaria morbidity, mortality, and control. Community empowerment is a milestone to meet the ambitious plans of eliminating malaria by 2030. This study aimed to evaluate school-based malaria social behavior change communication (SBCC) in terms of community mes...

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Published in:PloS one 2020-06, Vol.15 (6), p.e0235189
Main Authors: Kebede, Yohannes, Abebe, Lakew, Alemayehu, Guda, Sudhakar, Morankar, Birhanu, Zewdie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community and school
Educational aspects
Health aspects
Health promotion
Medical communication
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Summary:Ethiopia has shown incredible success in malaria morbidity, mortality, and control. Community empowerment is a milestone to meet the ambitious plans of eliminating malaria by 2030. This study aimed to evaluate school-based malaria social behavior change communication (SBCC) in terms of community message exposure, acceptance, knowledge, and practices. A community-based pre-posttest study was conducted in five districts of the Jimma Zone, Ethiopia. 762 and 759 households were sampled for baseline and end-line, respectively. The intervention engaged students from primary schools on participatory peer education within small groups, followed by exposing parents with malaria messages aimed to influencing ideation and preventive practices. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Proportion/mean differences were computed to compare both surveys on exposure, knowledge, perceptions, and practices at p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0235189