Table 7.

Non-adherence of patients/care giver to antibiotic prescription at Day 0 in intervention and control arms

Characteristic	Overall		Intervention arm		Control arm		Risk difference	p-value
	n/N (%)	95% CI	n/N (%)	95% CI	n/N (%)	95% CI	% [95% CI]
All	119/1052 (11.3)	[9.5, 13.4]	42/536 (7.8)	[5.8, 10.4]	77/516 (14.9)	[12.1, 18.3]	-7.1 [-10.9, -3.3]	< 0.001
Age group
< 5 years	76/625 (12.2)	[9.8, 15.0]	26/321 (8.1)	[5.6, 11.6]	50/304 (16.4)	[12.7, 21.1]	-8.3 [-13.5, -3.2]	0.001
5 to < 10 years	24/260 (9.2)	[6.3, 13.4]	12/133 (9.0)	[5.2, 15.1]	12/127 (9.4)	[5.5, 15.8]	-0.4% [-7.5, 6.6]	0.906
10 to < 18 years	10/106 (9.4)	[5.2, 16.5]	4/51 (7.8)	[3.1, 18.5]	6/55 (10.9)	[5.1, 21.8]	-3.1 [-14.1, 8.0]	0.587
> 18 years	9/61 (14.8)	[8.0, 25.7]	0/31 (0.0)	[0.0, 11.0]	9/30 (30.0)	[16.7, 47.9]	-30.0 [-46.4, -13.6]	< 0.001
COVID-19 vaccination status
Fully vaccinated	7/50 (14.0)	[7.0, 26.2]	0/25 (0.0)	[0.0, 13.3]	7/25 (28.0)	[14.3, 47.6]	-28.0 [-45.6, -10.4]	0.002
Partially vaccinated	1/22 (4.5)	[0.8, 21.8]	0/14 (0.0)	[0.0, 21.5]	1/8 (12.5)	[2.2, 47.1]	-12.5 [-35.4, 10.4]	0.285
Not vaccinated	111/975 (11.4)	[9.5, 13.5]	42/497 (8.5)	[6.3, 11.2]	69/478 (14.4)	[11.6, 17.9]	-6.0 [-10.0, -2.0]	0.003
Unknown status	0/5 (0.0)	[0.0, 43.4]	-	-	0/5 (0.0)	[0.0, 43.4]	-	-
Diagnosis
Respiratory diagnosis	79/397 (19.9)	[16.3, 24.1]	26/184 (14.1)	[9.8, 19.9]	53/213 (24.9)	[19.6, 31.1]	-10.8 [-18.4, -3.1]	0.006
Non-respiratory diagnosis	40/655 (6.1)	[4.5, 8.2]	16/352 (4.5)	[12.8, 7.3]	24/303 (7.9)	[5.4, 11.5]	-3.4 [-7.1, 0.4]	0.077
Malaria test result
Malaria test negative	83/498 (16.7)	[13.7, 20.2]	27/253 (10.7)	[7.4, 15.1]	56/245 (22.9)	[10.0, 28.5]	-12.2 [-18.7, -5.7]	< 0.001
Malaria test positive	36/553 (6.5)	[4.7, 8.9]	15/283 (5.3)	[3.2, 8.6]	21/270 (7.8)	[5.1, 11.6]	-2.5 [-6.6, 1.6]	0.239