Malaria kap survey in unorganized migrant people in Cu Pui commune, Krong Bong district

ABSTRACT

A cross-sectional survey using KAP survey was conducted in the Ea Rot hamlet, Cu Pui commune, Krongbong district of Daklak province where there settled a lot of unorganized people and a malaria outbreak occurred in 1997 to determine the malaria prevalence among the migrant people and risk factors for infection. It was found that malaria prevalence among the unorganized migrant people was higher than that of the local ones (7.8% compared to 4.07%) with p0.05, between Thai group and H'mong group (8.94% vs 6.67%) with p>0.05. However, a significant difference of malaria infection rate was found between the forest overnight and non-overnight people (25.61% vs 10.63%) with p<0.05, between the people using and not using mosquito nets (48.78% vs 77.01%) with p<0.05