Community surveys
malaria, fevers, fever
MALARIA
A community-based survey was conducted to collect individual-level study outcomes based on a population-based survey sampling strategy. This was a repeated cross-sectional household survey at four time points: baseline (pre-intervention), 6 months, 12 months and 18 months post-baseline. The survey was conducted in all the 32 CUs, 16 intervention and 16 control. Households were randomly selected by systematic random sampling and one person with fever in the last 4 weeks was interviewed in any household. If more than one eligible fever was found in a household, one participant would be selected based on alphabetical order of the given names. Details of community surveys’ sample size calculation are described elsewhere.Basic demographic information about the participants and the households was collected. Socioeconomic scores were calculated from an asset index and then grouped into quintiles as described previously. Euclidean distance from a household to the nearest health facility was calculated from Global Positioning System coordinates. In the final survey, participants’ beliefs about their illness, malaria risk, diagnostic testing and treatment were elicited by asking them about the severity of their illness, their confidence in positive test result and a negative test result, and how certain they were that they would recover from malaria after treatment with AL. ‘Perceived prevalence’ was defined as the proportion of fevers that the respondent believed would be due to malaria among 10 people with fever from their village. High perceived prevalence was assigned to those who responded 8–10 out of 10, medium prevalence to those who responded 4–7 out of 10 and low to those who responded 0–3 out of 10. The survey tool can be found in 

