Care-Seeking Behaviour and Treatment Practice for Malaria in Children Under 5 Years: A Cross Sectional Study in Idu Community, Abuja, Nigeria
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Malaria is one of the major causes of death for children who are under 5 years of age.African children are most affected because of the prevalence of the disease in the Continent.This study aimed at assessing care-seeking behaviour and treatment practice for malaria in children under 5 years of age.A cross sectional study was conducted by administering a self completed questionnaire to caregivers in Idu community, Abuja.Data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences.Findings revealed that all the study participants had encountered malaria in their children under 5 years, majority of the participants (55%) sought treatment from pharmacy or clinic when their under 5 years old child had malaria.More than a quarter of the study participants sought treatment within 24 hours following malaria infection in their children.For those that delayed in seeking treatment, majority of them indicated lack of finance as a reason for delay.Government therefore need to put policy in place to ensure that children under 5 years of age have unhindered access to malaria treatment so as to prevent loss of lives.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".