Schistosomiasis Control in Burkina Faso: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Populations in Four Villages
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Schistosomiasis is Africa’s second most common parasitosis in terms of morbidity and mortality. Humans have been identified as being primarily responsible for the persistence and dissemination of the disease within their environment. The aim of this study was to assess the theoretical and behavioral knowledge of an at-risk population in the control of schistosomiasis. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted from September 2021 to January 2022 in four villages in Burkina Faso: Pana, Vy, Bourzem, and Zam. The study population consisted of individuals aged 7-59 years, who were recruited from randomly selected households; any eligible person in each household who consented to participate was surveyed. A questionnaire was used to collect information on knowledge about schistosomiasis, attitudes, and practices at the individual level, as well as control behavior. A total of 527 participants were surveyed in the villages. The mean age was 26.76 (+/-14.22) years. The sex ratio was 0.84. More than half of the participants (59.27%) had never attended school. The symptoms of schistosomiasis were unknown to 42.13% of the participants. Bathing in contaminated water was known as a way of contamination by 29.22% of participants. Among the participants, 40.55% were aware of mass treatment campaigns, however, 43.19% of them found them ineffective. More than half (51.16%) of those using the village water point did not know that they were at risk of contracting the disease. Of the 20.89% of participants with a history of schistosomiasis, 22.22% used traditional medicines. The inadequate knowledge of the study population shows their vulnerability to the disease. The approximate attitude and practices highlight the socio-cultural specificities that influence the adoption of good practices in the control of the disease.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".