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Malawi Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Health Survey 1996

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Original or alternative title 
Malawi Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Health (MKAPH) Survey 1996
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Malawi (MWI)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
06/1996 - 10/1996
Series or system 
DHS Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Health Survey (KAP)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • De facto
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The objective of the MKAPH 1996 was to provide indicators for monitoring programs of the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP). The survey covered topics on contraceptive prevalence, sexually transmitted diseases, immunizations, malaria prophylaxis for pregnant women, vitamin A supplements, and childhood illnesses.

A total of four questionnaires were used: one for households, one for men between tha age of 15 and 54 years, one for women between the age of 15 and 49 years, and one for children under the age of 5 years completed by caretakers.

A total of 2,683 women and 2,658 men were enumerated and a total of 2,418 questionnaires were completed by caretakers.

Keywords 
Age at first sex, Antimalarials, Assets, BCG vaccines, Birth control pills, Breathing difficulty, Causes of morbidity, Child mortality, Circumcision, Community health clinics, Condoms, Contraceptive implants, Contraceptives, Cough, DTP vaccines, Diaphragms, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family planning, Family size, Female circumcision, Female infertility, Fertility, Fever, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, IUDs, Immunization, Infant mortality, Injectable contraceptives, Languages, Literacy, Living conditions, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Male infertility, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Otitis media, Parental survival, Pharmacies, Polio vaccines, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Sexual abstinence, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Spermicides, Summary birth history, Syphilis, Traditional birth control, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Trichomoniasis, Upper respiratory infections, Vaccination cards, Vector control, Vitamin A supplements, Vomiting, Water supply
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 19, 2022