The purpose of this manual is to provide detailed specifications for the indicators that can be measured through household surveys and the data that is required for their construction, as well as the issues related to their interpretation.
Using Household Surveys to Inform Malaria SBCC
April 25 marks World Malaria Day, a time for people around the globe to mobilize around the theme “Invest in the Future: Defeat Malaria.”
Increased investment in malaria prevention and treatment has helped drop the global burden from malaria disease – contributing to a 30 percent reduction in malaria incidence and a 47 percent reduction in malaria mortality since 2000. Investment in malaria social and behavior change communication (SBCC) has also contributed to this success, as malaria SBCC activities are shown to improve the awareness, attitudes, and behaviors of its target audiences.
SBCC works best when it is targeted, theory-driven and designed with the local culture and context in mind. Formative research, often in the form of household surveys, is key to providing health communication practitioners and decision-makers with the information needed to tailor programs and policies to a population’s specific needs. Household surveys can also be used to analyze the reach or impact of an SBCC campaign, as well as identify larger national and global trends over time. The results of household surveys are important for establishing the impact of malaria SBCC programs, and should be disseminated in a way that is accessible to decision-makers. This will ensure that programs are informed by research and that resources are invested in evidence-based strategies.
This Trending Topic provides tools for conducting household surveys and a selection of surveys used in actual project work. We hope that you will be able to refer to these resources in your own project work, and invite you to send your own materials to add to this collection. [To submit materials, simply register and then contribute your resources].
Resources
This toolkit brings together country and partner experiences to provide an overview of various strategies employed in mass LLIN scale-up, as well as lessons learned.
This toolkit provides practical guidance and support to Malaria Consortium staff and partners who are looking to increase their communications capacity. It has been developed as a resource for project staff who work at field-level.
This online training series is aimed at strengthening capacity and knowledge for using evidence and data to create strong SBCC programs for malaria prevention and control. Anyone can register and take the training for free.
This video provides a explanation of insecticide-treated net (ITN) access including definition, important things to know, why ITN access matters, calculation, where to find it in DHS reports, and how to express ITN usage when explaining the statistics to others.
The purpose of these guidelines from the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) is to assist in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs to influence behaviors and mobilize communities to create long term normative shifts towards desired behaviors and to sustain enabling behaviors around the four PMI interventions.
This toolkit contains technical materials for training community-based volunteers plus summaries of key guidelines for behavior change communication. While developed as part of a malaria prevention effort, this training guide also covers child health and hygiene, in addition to malaria.
This tool provides basic information on a wide variety of indicators for malaria surveys, including:
This manual is Module #7 of the DHS Curriculum Facilitators Guide. The DHS Curriculum Facilitator’s Guide is a comprehensive package of ready-made training materi
These Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS) measure indicators related to the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Global Malaria Action Plan, the Mi
This is a decision tree - a mapping of how an individual or group moves through the process of making a decision - and was created as part of the inquiry process for the Wazazi Nipendeni (Love me, Parents) national safe motherhood social and behavior change communication (SBCC) campaign.
This is a decision tree - a mapping of how an individual or group moves through the process of making a decision - and was created as part of the inquiry process for the Wazazi Nipendeni (Love me, Parents) national safe motherhood social and behavior change communication (SBCC) campaign. The campaign aims to encourage Tanzanian women and their
The objective of this household survey was to monitor consumer treatment-seeking behavior for fever in children under five, including
A cross-sectional survey was implemented in Liberia in 2014 with the primary aim of identifying attitudes and beliefs that are associated with four outcomes of malaria prevention and treatment:
