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Table 12 Correct treatment counselling: Proportion of caretakers to whom the HCWs mentioned both the number of doses a day and the number of days for home-based treatment

From: An Integrated eDiagnosis Approach (IeDA) versus standard IMCI for assessing and managing childhood illness in Burkina Faso: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial

Treatment

Baseline

Control arm

Intervention arm

Na

%

95%CI

Na

%

95%CI

Na

%

95%CI

Oral antibiotics for pneumonia b

290

81.7

70.3

89.4

538

93.9

90.9

95.9

228

91.7

88.8

93.8

Artemisinin-based Combinnation Therapy (ACT) c

470

93.6

89.1

96.3

721

96.4

94.1

97.8

360

96.7

94.5

98.0

ORS

99

46.5

25.1

69.2

264

86.7

77.4

92.6

148

84.5

59.6

95.2

Zinc

99

83.8

74.9

90.0

268

94.0

91.7

95.7

153

87.6

63.9

96.6

Oral anti-infectious for dysentery d

19

57.9

26.5

84.0

54

83.3

69.5

91.7

18

94.4

70.0

99.2

Deworming treatments e

73

80.8

59.4

92.4

111

94.6

77.2

98.9

68

89.7

73.6

96.5

Iron/ folic acid

42

47.6

19.5

77.3

40

92.5

69.0

98.6

72

83.3

58.8

94.6

Plumpy nut or equivalent

28

32.1

17.6

51.3

16

75.0

41.0

92.8

27

63.0

55.8

69.6

  1. aNumber of children who were prescribed, by the HCWs, a given treatment (regardless of the classification)
  2. b Amoxicillin, Cotrimoxazole; c Artesunate + Amodiaquine, Artemether/ Lumefantrine; d Ciprofloxacin, Metronidazole; e Albendazole, Mebendazole