Table 5

Summary of proposed interventions to build and maintain community participation in malaria prevention practices (particularly the use of LLINs).

Proposed interventions

Attempting individual behaviour change

Attempting modification of social norms

Engaging and augmenting social mechanisms

×

Engaging communities by:

Integrating malaria interventions with activities addressing other community health and disease priorities

×

Obtaining multisectoral involvement

×

Providing feedback to communities of progress towards elimination

×

Communication strategy (targeted messages)

Increasing knowledge of malaria

×

Modifying malaria risk perception

×

×

Modifying perceptions and misconceptions of LLINs

×

×

Modifying patterns of bed net use (and conveying importance of high community coverage)

×

×

Promoting LLIN maintenance

×

×

Addressing gender specific or lifestyle related exposure to mosquitoes/malaria

×

Addressing issue of limited LLIN use while travelling

×

×

Communication strategy (channels of communication)

×

×

Storytelling, community meetings, workshops, school curriculum, community theatre, music, special events, personal selling, mass media, promotional materials and peer-led education

Atkinson et al. Malaria Journal 2010 9:93   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-93