Malaria knowledge, preventive actions, and treatment-seeking behavior among ethnic minorities in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia: a community-based cross-sectional survey

Table 3 Indices to describe knowledge and action for malaria prevention and vector control

Indices and their items	Number of items in index	Maximum possible score	Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha)	Overall		Fever in pregnancy (n = 99)		No fever in pregnancy (n = 278)		p-value	Child had fever (n = 66)		Child no fever (n = 311)		p-value
Indices and their items	Number of items in index	Maximum possible score	Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha)	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-value	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-value
Knowledge
Malaria symptom	5	1	0.837	0.446	0.498	0.354	0.481	0.478	0.500	0.032	0.273	0.449	0.482	0.500	0.002
Malaria transmission	6	1	0.877	0.406	0.492	0.364	0.483	0.421	0.495	0.321	0.303	0.463	0.428	0.496	0.061
Vector active time	1	1	N/A	0.780	0.415	0.778	0.418	0.781	0.415	0.954	0.742	0.441	0.788	0.410	0.421
Vector breeding places	4	1	0.691	0.560	0.497	0.525	0.502	0.572	0.496	0.423	0.439	0.500	0.585	0.493	0.030
Vector species	6	1	0.914	0.480	0.500	0.495	0.503	0.475	0.500	0.732	0.485	0.504	0.479	0.500	0.933
Vector natural enemies	4	1	0.731	0.432	0.496	0.364	0.483	0.457	0.499	0.109	0.258	0.441	0.469	0.500	0.002
Vector development time	1	1	N/A	0.034	0.183	0.051	0.220	0.029	0.167	0.310	0.030	0.173	0.035	0.185	0.838
Action
Malaria preventive measures	5	10	0.649	7.464	2.114	7.182	2.164	7.565	2.090	0.122	6.636	2.291	7.640	2.035	< 0.001
Vector control measures	9	13	0.626	6.525	2.741	6.586	2.692	6.504	2.762	0.798	6.364	2.875	6.559	2.715	0.599

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