Knowledge, and attitude of service user of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine pyrimethamine in the Volta Region of Ghana
The findings from the present studies highlighted important factor such as number of antenatal visits that affect both knowledge of services and attitude to use IPTp-SP. Therefore, a community-based health promotion programmes to help to increase knowledges and improved attitude on timely and regular antenatal attendance to promote the benefit of IPTp-SP should be encouraged.
Authors
- Livingstone Asem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1483-819X)
- Abdul-Gafaru Abdulia
- Patrick Opoku Assuming
- Gordon Abeka-Nkrumah
Institutions
- University of Ghana (GH)
- University of Health and Allied Sciences (GH)
- Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2024-09-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309340
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Malaria Research and Control
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.63