Individual knowledge and household level causes associated with malaria incidence in a kudapakkam village: a statistical exploration

A multi-level analysis was carried out among people of Kudapakkam Village. This area was chosen as a model to study malaria Knowledge Attitude and Practices (KAP). This area is situated Thiruvallur district of Tamilnadu in India. The aim is to determine awareness factors associated with malaria. Data were collected from secondary sources containing 580 respondents. The data deals with socio demographic characteristics, knowledge of signs and symptoms, usage of Long Lasting Insecticidal Net (LLIN) and adverse measures of malaria. Forty percent of respondents doesn’t know about signs and symptoms of malaria and remaining sixty percentage respondents know the signs and symptoms of malaria. Awareness of malaria, usage of LLIN was significantly associated with family grade of education; Awareness of malaria was not significantly associated with occupation, gender, respondent age, community, occupation of the family. Knowledge, signs and symptoms and usage of LLIN have no association with malaria attacks. In addition, to found the hidden pattern of Knowledge, signs and symptoms and usage of LLIN using two step cluster analysis and cross validate this pattern using discriminant analysis.