Protocol for a Systematic Review of School Based Educational Interventions on Prevention and Control of Malaria

Abstract

Introduction: Schools are an integral part of the community and creating health awareness at the educational premises is one of the successful policies for the health promotion. School children play an active role as health changing agents in the community and hence, can be the health messengers for malaria prevention. The need of the current review is to strengthen the evidences towards malaria elimination. Aim: To evaluate the influence of school based educational interventions for the malaria control and prevention activities. Materials and Methods: This review on malaria will search the literature from databases such as PubMed, Medline, CINAHL Plus, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar and Science Direct using keywords. It will follow Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. Quantitative studies (Randomised trials and Non randomised trials) published from 2001 to 2020 in English language will be included. Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist will be used to assess the quality of the studies. Findings of the selected articles will be presented in the form of narrative summaries along with statistical interpretations. Conclusion: This review on school based educational interventions will provide evidences in order to take preventive and control measures on malaria. It will support the hypothesis that school based educational interventions play an essential role to enhance knowledge about malaria, reduce malaria prevalence and promote preventive measures in the community.

Keywords

• health education
• prevention
• schools
• school children or health messengers