Effects of Health Education Intervention on Malaria Knowledge, Motivation, and Behavioural Skills

This post discusses the burden and risk of malaria and the need for proper health intervention and education to prevent and treat it. It also evaluates the effects of a health educational intervention on malaria knowledge, motivation, and behavioural skills through a randomized controlled trial.

Discussion Board
Assessment

Table of Contents
Original Post....................................................................................................................................1
Others Post.......................................................................................................................................2
Article - Effects of a health educational intervention on malaria knowledge, motivation, and
behavioural skills: a randomized controlled trial, 2019.........................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

Original Post
It has been seen and analysed that the Malaria is tend to be a very febrile disease that is
caused by the parasitic infection tend to spread and caused through the bite of the infected female
anopheles. The selection of Malaria disease has been made for current discussion as the burden
and risk of Malaria is inappropriately tending to be high in many countries. Further, around the
half of the population and a large number of people across the world are at the higher risk of
stetting infected by the Malaria because of the being highly infectious in nature caused causative
parasite plasmodium falciparum (Baindara, Agrawal & Franco, 2022). Thus, Malaria has become
a vital problem and thus it become essential to proper health intervention and education is being
needed to prevent and have proper treatment of the malaria. Use of the PICO method has been
made for the formulation and leading about an effective question along with the use of the CASP
tool which supports and lead to a generic tool for effective and systematic appraising of the
strengths as well as the limitations of the selected qualitative research methodology. The use of
the PICO framework tends to utilize and formulated a focused set of clinical questions based on
effective population, intervention, comparison and outcome. The set research question for
current post is “What is malaria and its main cause and symptoms along with supporting
effective ways for its prevention and intervention?”. The implication and evaluation of current
research questions has been evaluated below through making use of the PICO framework:
Population (P) Individual with Malaria
Intervention (I) Health Education Interventions
Comparison (C) No comparison
Outcome (O) Prevention of Malaria
It has been understanding and learnt that the Malaria is tend to be a fatal disease that is
caused by the plasmodium species and the death rate in case of Malaria is around 94% that is
reflecting the fatalness of the malaria disease. The main complication and symptoms of Malaria
comprises of having headache, diarrhoea along with high fever and bloody stools, yellow skin
and body ache along with some others. Further, the main cause of the Malaria is tend to be
through the causative parasite plasmodium falciparum along with the infected female anopheles’
mosquito that has been injected and dorm out in form of sporozotiies which are tend to be
injected within bloodstream. Further, the recommendation and suggestion that can be made for
1

better intervention and prevention of the Malaria tend to includes and comprises of the entering
proper dissemination of the information about people through using different sources to have
higher awareness about the precaution to eliminate cause of malaria. Further, running of health
programmes and timely diagnoses and treatment of the disease would play a vital role in cure
and intervention of Malaria (Ebel & et. al. 2022).
Others Post
Article - Effects of a health educational intervention on malaria knowledge, motivation, and
behavioural skills: a randomized controlled trial, 2019
The aim of the current post is tending to assess the effects of the healthy and educational
intervention o setting and leading the information motivation behavioural in people to ensure
better prevention in disease of Malaria. Further, it has been seen that selected post is based on the
analysis of a randomized controlled parallel group which form a part of the trial in which 372
antennal were randomly selected to have better underdoing and implication about the issue of the
Malaria. Malaria is a fatal disease that is caused by the mosquitoes and infected parasite which is
mainly initiated by the bite of the female anopheles’ mosquito (Yadav, Khanam & Singh, 2022).
Further, the main causes as well as the symptoms of the Malaria includes the diarrhoea, body
ache, fever, bloody stools, etc. Along with this, Malaria is common diseases within the areas of
tropical and subtropics area as they have temperate climate where the specific of parasite are
more tend to grow in an easy form. Beside this, it has been also seen that starting symptoms of
the malaria tend to comprise of shivering along with high level of fever and body ache that tend
to begin after the few week of the bite by the infected mosquito (Mahittikorn & et. al. 2022).
Along with this, it has bene seen that effective health intervention and along with leading of
proper awareness about Malaria is tend to be effectively needed to perfect and safeguard
individuals from this fata and risk disease (Baindara, Agrawal & Franco, 2022). Further
supporting timely diagnosis and ensuring preventable and proper treatment is also needed to
reduce the death rate cause by Malaria. Along with tis, the use of social media along with
annulment through radio and other channels could also be made to have higher awareness about
the cause and symptoms of Malaria along with supporting effective adoption of ways to
eliminate the risk of spared of Malaria (Ebel & et. al. 2022).
CASP tool
2

the review of the authenticity and reliability of the selected post has been made with the
help of CASP tool that has been presented with the help of following table:
Article
References
[Online]. Available through:
<https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12
936-019-2676-3>
Study aim To move towards the elimination phase of malaria by the way
of educating the community
Study Design Randomized controlled parallel-group study
Study Participants Hospital’s antenatal care attendees
Strengths and
limitations of the
studies
strengths of the study included the randomization and blinding
of participants. However, inability to maintain an absolutely
controlled environment is the limitation of study.
Recommendations supporting timely diagnosis and ensuring preventable and proper
treatment
Part 2: Reply to the post
In this, the issue which is analysed as per the post is based on the discussion which is well
related with the abortion. Therefore, it is critically examining that the issue of abortion may place
various difficulties among the general population. It is usually impact negative on the community
and social group (Kharbanda& et. al., 2021). The abortion is not ethical and it usually breaches
the various norms and ethics which is well related with the aspect of termination of child which
is presented inside the foetus. It is usually done by using the approach which is medically or
surgically that have a single motive which is presented that the aspect of termination of child
which is present inside the foetus (Endler & et. al., 2019). Due to the unwanted pregnancy the
major issue which is well related with the abortion. The unwanted pregnancy may also suffer the
context that raise the context which is related with termination of foetus with the medical
procedure (Etminan & et. al., 2022).
Therefore, it creates various complication with the mother when they terminate their child. In
addition, the mental health issue is the major cause which is well associated with the mother after
3

the termination of pregnancy that cause the issue of mental health issue and so on. Along with
this, strengths of the study included the randomization and blinding of participants. However,
inability to maintain an absolutely controlled environment is the limitation of study (Aiken& et.
al., 2021). Further, it has been seen that an abortion is a sort of the medical procedure that ends a
pregnancy. It is a basic tend to be undertake and related with the healthcare need for millions of
women, girls and others who can become pregnant. Worldwide, an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies
end in an abortion every year. There are two types of abortion methods: medical abortion (the
'abortion pill') that is needed to be taking medication to end the pregnancy while the other is the
surgical abortion which is needed to be a procedure to remove the pregnancy (Awowole &
Ijarotimi, 2022). Along with this it has been also seen that many set of the There are many great
resources are tending to be available for gathering the effective sort of the evidence on this topic
based on the abortion that is also included in based on the Meta-Analysis is the best form of
evidence as it focuses on selecting and reviewing quantitative research (Mark& et. al., 2019).
Along with this, it has been also seen and find out that he suitable form of the evidence for
undertaking and conducting current study is based in the peer reviewed set of the articles along
with the publication dates that are maximum ranging and based on the 10 year’s. Further, based
on current post it has been also seen and find out that the Unless there's an any sort of the rare
and form of the serious complication that's not treated (Singh& et. al., 2018). Abortion tend to
have pill taking that shoes that there's no risk to for the future pregnancies or to the overall
health. Along with this, it has been also found out that the having an abortion doesn't increase the
treat or risk for breast cancer or affect the fertility level of the women (Calkin & Freeman, 2019).
4

REFERENCES
Books and journal
Aiken, A. R. A., Lohr, P. A., Lord, J., Ghosh, N., & Starling, J. (2021). Effectiveness, safety and
acceptability of no‐test medical abortion (termination of pregnancy) provided via
telemedicine: a national cohort study. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &
Gynaecology, 128(9), 1464-1474.
Awowole, I.O. & Ijarotimi, O.A., 2022. Restrictive abortion laws, COVID-19, telehealth, and
medication abortion in the SDG era. The Lancet Global Health, 10(1), pp.e14-e15.
Baindara, P., Agrawal, S., & Franco, O. L. (2022). Host-directed therapies for malaria and
tuberculosis: common infection strategies and repurposed drugs. Expert Review of Anti-
infective Therapy, 1-21.
Calkin, S., & Freeman, C. (2019). Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of
abortion access. Social & Cultural Geography, 20(9), 1325-1332.
Ebel, E. R. & et. al. (2022). Revisiting the malaria hypothesis: accounting for polygenicity and
pleiotropy. Trends in Parasitology.
Endler, M., Lavelanet, A., Cleeve, A., Ganatra, B., Gomperts, R., & Gemzell‐Danielsson, K.
(2019). Telemedicine for medical abortion: a systematic review. BJOG: An International
Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 126(9), 1094-1102.
Etminan, M & et. al., 2022. Association of Topical Prostaglandin Analogue Use With Risk of
Spontaneous Abortion. JAMA ophthalmology.
Kharbanda, E. O., Haapala, J., DeSilva, M., Vazquez-Benitez, G., Vesco, K. K., Naleway, A. L.,
& Lipkind, H. S. (2021). Spontaneous abortion following COVID-19 vaccination during
pregnancy. JAMA, 326(16), 1629-1631.
Mahittikorn, A. & et. al. (2022). Tumour necrosis factor-α as a prognostic biomarker of severe
malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Travel Medicine.
Mark, A., Foster, A. M., Grossman, D., Prager, S. W., Reeves, M., Velásquez, C. V., &
Winikoff, B. (2019). Foregoing Rh testing and anti-D immunoglobulin for women
presenting for early abortion: a recommendation from the National Abortion Federation's
Clinical Policies Committee. Contraception, 99(5), 265-266.
Singh, S., Remez, L., Sedgh, G., Kwok, L., & Onda, T. (2018). Abortion worldwide 2017:
uneven progress and unequal access.
Yadav, S., Khanam, R., & Singh, J. P. (2022). A purview into highly sensitive magnetic SERS
detection of hemozoin biomarker for rapid malaria diagnosis. Sensors and Actuators B:
Chemical, 355, 131303.
5