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The findings were considered significant at P &amp;lt; 0.05.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Among 62,624 blood films between 2015 and 2021 at Jawi Health Center, 40.9% were positive.\n                      <jats:italic>Plasmodium falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      accounted for 85.8%. Women had more mixed infections (\n                      <jats:italic>P. falciparum<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>P. vivax<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) (X\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      = 8.9, df = 2, P = 0.011) than men. A greater proportion (20.6%) of malaria cases was observed within the under 5 years age group and the number of malaria cases was higher in September, October, and June. The overall prevalence of malaria was found to be 25.2% and June had the highest proportion (75.6%). In total, 335 (80.9%) respondents recognized mosquito bites as the cause and fever (50%) as a clinical symptom of malaria. More than half of the respondents (60.1%) never sleep under mosquito nets.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Thus, these findings have substantial implications for the trend of malaria prevalence and patient awareness of the disease which support the existing malaria control efforts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpara.2025.1535306","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,4]],"date-time":"2025-02-04T01:31:54Z","timestamp":1738632714000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Malaria prevalence and patients\u2019 knowledge, attitude, and preventive practices toward the disease in the Jawi District, Awi Zone, Northwest Ethiopia"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Mekete","family":"Damen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Damtew","family":"Bekele","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fikru","family":"Gashaw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"80","DOI":"10.11648\/j.ajbio.20170505.12","article-title":"Community knowledge, attitude and practice about malaria and mosquito biting behavior in Southern Ethiopia","volume":"5","author":"Abrar","year":"2017","journal-title":"Am. 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