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Table 4 Diagnoses assigned to children under five presenting with cough and/or difficult breathing

From: No time for change? Impact of contextual factors on the effect of training primary care healthcare workers in Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam on how to manage asthma in children - A FRESH AIR implementation study

n (%) [missing]

Total number of diagnoses

Kyrgyzstan pre-trainingb Consultations, n = 239

Kyrgyzstan post-training, Consultations, n = 36

Vietnam pre-training b Consultations, n = 239

Vietnam post-training Consultations, n = 133

Upper respiratory tract viral infectiona

152 (63.6) [0]

21 (58.3)

160 (67.0) [2]

57 (42.9)

Bronchitis

28 (19.7) [0]

9 (25)

36 (15.1) [1]

22 (16.5)

Pneumonia

2 (0.8) [0]

1 (2.8)

6 (2.5) [0]

0 (0)

Bronchiolitis

0 (0)

0 (0)

17 (7.1) [1]

3 (2.3)

Asthma

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (0.8) [0]

5 (3.8)

  1. a consisting of children with the following diagnoses: ‘ARI’, cold, coryza, flu, nasopharyngitis, ‘RTI’, upper respiratory tract infection, ‘URTI’, viral infection. b Data in this column has previously been published in Kjærgaard et al. [5]