1Professor, Department of Community Medicine, S. Nijalingappa Medical College, Bagalkot
2Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, S. Nijalingappa Medical College, Bagalkot
3Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine, S. Nijalingappa Medical College, Bagalkot
4DHO, Bagalkot
Online published on 19 November, 2012.
Mass drug administration (MDA), which means once in-a-year administration of diethyl carbamazine (DEC) tablet to all people (excluding children under 2 years, pregnant women and severely ill persons) in identified endemic areas.
1. To study the compliance of MDA and its determinants in rural areas of Bilagi taluk. 2. To study the reasons for non compliance
A cross sectional study
Rural areas of Bilagi taluk belonging to Bagalkot district, Karnataka state, identified as endemic areas of Filariasis where MDA 2008 was undertaken
10% of families from each cluster totaling to 5512 population from 30 clusters.
Two stage sampling method (stratified and 30 cluster sampling method)
77.34% of study population consumed the DEC and 22.66% did not consume DEC. 97% of the children in the age group of 6–14 years consumed DEC and 88% of the children in the age group 2–5 years consumed the DEC. Compliance in age group of 15–60 years was 73%. Compliance in females was 79% as compared to males 75.56%. 88.27% of individuals were motivated by the head of the family who consumed DEC. Compliance of DEC consumption was significantly higher when distributed by teacher.
MDA, Lymphatic filariasis, DEC, Compliance
