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Treatment seeking behavior of people with malaria and households’ expenditure incurred to it in a block in endemic area in Assam, North East India

Dhruba Borah

P Sarma

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Treatment seeking behavior of people with
malaria and households’ expenditure incurred to
it in a block in endemic area in Assam, North
East India
Dhruba Jyoti Borah1*, P Sankara Sarma2
From First International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases (HIV SCIENCE 2012)
Chennai, India. 20-22 January 2012
Background
The 60-90% preponderance of Plasmodium falciparum
malaria places an economic burden in the community.
The objective of the study was to know the treatment
seeking behavior of people with malaria and households’
expenditure incurred to it in a block in endemic area.
Methods
In a cross sectional survey, all 210 diagnosed malaria
patients within one month were interviewed through a
pre-structured interview schedule during the high trans-
mission season in pre, post and monsoon period in 2010.
Results
During the last episodes of malaria, 58.5% sought treat-
ment from government health facilities out of which
41.4% went to allopath, 17.1% went to community
health workers, 25.3% went to private practitioners of
which 12.9% went to tea garden doctors, 8% to other
facilities, 7.6% to traditional healers, 9% to homeopath
and .4% to none. Self treatments were taken by 59%
patients. Plasmodium falciparum affected 55.2%
patients, Vivax 41.4% and mixed infection 3.3%. The
median expenditure incurred on treatment was `821, on
preventive action were `150 and daily wage loss was
`100. The SC, ST (65.7%), farmers and daily wage
laborers were going less to government facilities. The
household expenditure was mainly associated with self
treatment and repeat malaria.
Conclusion
The people of lower socio-economic group utilized
more government health facilities for malaria treatment.
Self treatment and repeated malaria had an impact on
household expenditure. Improvement in quality health
care delivery in public sector and IEC activities in the
community would empower for maximum utilization of
government health facilities.
Author details
1Regional Coordinator for North Eastern States (Care Support and
Treatment), NACO, India. 2Department of Statistics, AMCHSS, Sree Chitra
Tirunal Institute for Medical Science and Technology, Kerala, India.
Published: 4 May 2012
doi:10.1186/1471-2334-12-S1-P41
Cite this article as: Borah and Sarma: Treatment seeking behavior of
people with malaria and households’ expenditure incurred to it in a
block in endemic area in Assam, North East India. BMC Infectious Diseases
2012 12(Suppl 1):P41.
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* Correspondence: djcstneronaco@gmail.com
1Regional Coordinator for North Eastern States (Care Support and
Treatment), NACO, India
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Borah and Sarma BMC Infectious Diseases 2012, 12(Suppl 1):P41
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