Background: For the success of any program, its implementation plays a crucial role. Community health workers are of immense importance for malaria elimination from India.
Objective: This study was aimed to assess the knowledge gaps and the responsible factors for mitanins' knowledge on various aspects of and problems faced by mitanins during their work.
Methods: Structured interviewer-based questionnaire was used to collect the data, and ordinal regression was applied to analyze the data.
Results: Only 26% of the mitanins were having a good knowledge attitude and practices (KAP) score about malaria. Malaria endemicity of area [odds ratio (OR) = 0.26, 95% CI = 0.13-0.50), P < 0.001] and education (OR = 0.35, 95% CI = 0.18-0.69, P = 0.002) were the two significant factors affecting the KAP of mitanins.
Conclusion: This study shows that prioritizing education while recruiting the mitanins and training them in the low endemic areas with a focus on malaria, which will help achieve the malaria elimination goal.
Keywords: community health workers (CHWs); knowledge attitude and practice (KAP); malaria; malaria endemic areas; tribals.
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