Awareness and Malaria Prevention Practices in a Rural Community in the Ho Municipality, Ghana

Table 2

Awareness on malaria spread, symptoms, and treatment.

Variable	Attributes	Frequency (n=246)	Percent (%)
Awareness of malaria	Yes	242	98
	No	6	2
Malaria is transmissible from infected person	Yes	100	40
	No	148	60
Common symptoms of malaria	Fever	215	87
	Nausea	126	51
	Headache	179	72
	Body aches	167	67
	Vomiting	181	73
	Shivering	219	88
Name of vector that transmits malaria	Female anopheles	187	75
	Male anopheles	7	3
	No idea	54	22
Medicines against malaria	Chloroquine	125	50
	Quine	173	70
	No idea	2	1
	Others	22	9
Other forms of malaria treatment	ACT	21	96
	Artemether lumefantrine	1	5
Malaria is a/an	Ordinary disease	96	39
	Deadly disease	132	53
	No idea	20	8