Kamaraju Raghavendra|Mehul Kumar Chourasia|Dipak Kumar Swain|Rajendra M Bhatt|Sreehari Uragayala|Gitashree Dutta|Immo Kleinschmidt
Monitoring of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) coverage versus utilization: a community-based survey in malaria endemic villages of Central India
National Institute of Malaria Research|National Institute of Malaria Research|National Institute of Malaria Research|National Institute of Malaria Research|National Institute of Malaria Research|National Institute of Malaria Research|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
despite known effectiveness longlasting insecticidal nets llins providing protection malaria high level ownership use difficult achieve maintain nearly 40000 llins distributed 2014 intervention tool malaria transmission 80 villages keshkal subdistrict chhattisgarh india study assessed llin coverage access utilization pattern key determinants net use 1 year mass distributionin 2015 crosssectional household survey carried 80 study clusters whole village part village cluster 40 households randomly selected interviewed using structured questionnaire adapted malaria indicator survey roll back malaria guidelines information demographic characteristics llin ownership use night survey physical condition llins recorded2970 households interviewed total 15003 individuals present households night survey nearly 98 households least one llin 594 surveyed population reportedly used llin previous night llin use varied 41 94 study clusters nearly 89 llins found good physical condition without holes however proportion household least one llin per two persons 39universal coverage llins inadequate study clusters making difficult household members use llin llin use varied clusters highest children 5 years age health education campaigns creating awareness benefit sleeping llins providing protection malaria required high risk groups pregnant women children 5 years age members family epidemiological impact intervention community level relatively high net use despite poor access llins indicates overall desire use nets available main barrier increased use nets low coverage household level