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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Impact of pharmacy worker training and deployment on access to essential medicines for children under five in Malawi: a cluster quasi-experimental evaluation

 

Intervention

(n = 2096, 52.74%)

Comparison

(n = 1840, 46.3%)

Total

(n = 3947)

Age of child, years, mean (SD)

2.34 (1.3)

2.15 (1.3)

2.25 (1.3)

Male child, n (%)

843 (48.9%)

991 (50.7%)

1834 (49.9%)

Number of persons in household, mean (SD)

5.39 (1.8)

5.24 (1.8)

5.32 (1.8)

Age of primary caregiver, mean (SD)

29.11 (7.9)

29.15 (8.6)

29.13 (8.3)

Female primary caregiver, n (%)

1765 (97.8%)

2008 (98.7%)

3810 (98.3%)

Education level of primary caregiver

 None, n (%)

348 (20.2%)

187 (9.6%)

535 (14.6%)

 Primary, n (%)

1263 (73.5%)

1487 (76.4%)

2750 (75.1%)

 Above primary, n (%)

106 (6.1%)

270 (13.8%)

376 (10.2%)

Socioeconomic status quantile

 Highest, n (%)

-

-

-

 Second Highest, n (%)

421 (24.4%)

292 (14.9%)

713 (19.4%)

 Middle, n (%)

927 (53.8%)

884 (45.2%)

1811 (49.2%)

 Second Lowest, n (%)

324 (18.8%)

561 (28.7%)

885 (24.0%)

 Lowest, n (%)

49 (2.8%)

217 (11.1%)

266 (7.2%)

Child’s symptoms in last two weeks

 Fever, n (%)

1390 (76.3%)

1676 (80.8%)

3096 (78.7%)

 Cough, n (%)

515 (28.3%)

578 (27.8%)

1101 (28.0%)

 Diarrhea, n (%)

783 (43.0%)

898 (43.3%)

1697 (43.2%)