0704-883-0675     |      dataprojectng@gmail.com

PREVALENCE, CLINICAL MANIFESTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTION AND PRACTICES OF LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS IN PAIKORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, NIGER STATE

  • Project Research
  • 1-5 Chapters
  • Abstract : Available
  • Table of Content: Available
  • Reference Style: APA
  • Recommended for : Student Researchers
  • NGN 3000

ABSTRACT

There are ongoing current efforts of mass drug administration for the interruption of lymphatic filariasis (LF) in Nigeria but the disease is still one of the major disabling filarial diseases of public health significance. Unupdated possible data on the transmission of LF informed this study to elucidate the prevalence of Wuchereria bancrofti infection in Paikoro Local Government, Niger State. Immunochromatographic card test (ICT) for detecting circulating filarial antigen (CFA) using whole blood and overt clinical manifestations (Lymphoedema and hydrocoele) were used as diagnostic tools. The demographic characteristics as well as knowledge and perception of participants were determined using structured questionnaire, out of the 1015 randomly selected subjects aged >5years an overall prevalence of 24.33% was established, there was a trend of higher prevalence in males (13.11%) than females (11.22%). Wuchereria bancrofti prevalence varies significantly (p<0.05) among the age group examined while the highest prevalence was recorded among age group of 16-25 (8.6%) the lowest prevalence was recorded among age group of 56—65years . Participants were aware of the symptoms such as itching, pain, and chill and majority of the respondents acknowledged that the disease is transmitted through mosquito bite and controlled by sleeping under mosquito net. 37.7% of participants were informed by past experience with Lymphatic filariasis, Community health workers, Mass media and Hospitals. On the other hand, the infection varied significantly (p<0.05) with respect to marital status and occupational characteristics of the participants in the communities. The results indicated that W. bancrofti infection is widely spread in Paikoro Local Government and it is a major health issue, this calls for urgent need for mass drug administration, mass sensitization, sustained intervention program towards the people in the study area.





Related Project Materials

PROBLEMS OF FEMALE SECRETARIES IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (A Case Of NEPA)  

ABSTRACT

This research work is aimed at defining the PROBLEMS OF FEMALE SECRETARIES IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS A CASE OF...

Read more
AN ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING RESOURCES AND ITS IMPACT ON TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS IN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Background Of Study

Every country in the world benefits greatly from education. It is significant becau...

Read more
SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT

ABSTRACT

In to day’s word of mass media adver...

Read more
IMPACT OF MICROLEARNING ON ADULT EDUCATION

Abstract: This research examines the impact of microlearning on adult education, focusing on the effectiveness of short, focused learning sess...

Read more
THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON VOCATIONAL JOB MOBILITY

Abstract: The impact of globalization on vocational job mobility is significant in shaping...

Read more
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A METRE BRIDGE

ABSTRACT

 

The work started with an extensive literary research in an attempt to find out facts about the...

Read more
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RUSSIA AND ITS NATO ALLIES  

ABSTRACT

This study was carried out to analyze the Russian-Ukrainian war on the relationship between Russia and its Nato...

Read more
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE CLEARANCE SYSTEM FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS

Online clearance system is basically design to save user information, facilitate the manipulation of data in a faster rate, provide concurrent acce...

Read more
COOPERATIVE THRIFT AND CREDIT SOCIETY SYSTEM (CTCSS)

Abstract

This project work aimed at developing a Cooperative Thrift and Credit Society System (CTCSS) for Cooperative So...

Read more
ASSESSMENT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN AND ITS EFFECT ON THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

ABSTRACT

The main aim of the study is to find out the effects of domestic violence on performance of students in public...

Read more
Share this page with your friends




whatsapp