SURVEY AT SHANTY REGIONS OF LAHORE TO ASSESS THE RESIDENT'S INFORMATION, APPROACH & PERFORMANCE (IAP) AGAINST MALARIA

Objective: For appraisal of IAP (information, approach, performance) concerning Malaria amongst Lahore’s shanty residents.

Methods: we launched a society/population dependent survey and made a report against shanty sections belong to Lahore. We included Hashmat society for this. This survey expanded over one year with (May, 16 to June, 17). We incorporated 150 residents for survey. We took interview from them with the help of LHW (Lady Health Worker), consisting three categories (IAP) of questions bank regarding Malaria. The residents with suitable IAP got 69 percent score in questionnaire. By using Chi-squared testing, we did compare the residents against each other having equal scoring. 

Results: The average age of the feminine members was 40 years, mostly they got married. A huge number of members have acceptable approach by comparing with information & performance. Information & performance has the noticeable variation.

Conclusion: Hashmat society’s residents, showed impressive approach to prevent them from disease. We found their information about disease & performance was at very lower level. This happened in respect of their illiteracy & lower social-economic status. It is very much necessary to improve their information & performance to control Malaria’s load.

Keywords: information, approach, performance, Lahore, Malaria.