Table 4. PMR's practices while selling medicines for a three year old febrile child.
| Selling practices | Kisii site | Kwale site | ||||||
| I (n) % | C (n) % | P | OR (95% CI) | I (n) % | C (n) % | P | OR (95% CI) | |
| Sold anti-malarial with or without antipyretic* | 40/43 (93.0%) | 27/36 (75.0%) | 0.032 | 4.4 (1.1, 17.9) | 27/32 (84.4%) | 23/42 (54.7%) | 0.011 | 4.4 (1.4, 13.8) |
| Sold antipyretic only | 3/43 (6.9%) | 9/36 (25.0%) | 0.026 | 0.2 (0.1, 0.9) | 5/32 (15.6%) | 19/42 (45.2%) | 0.011 | 0.2 (0.1, 0.7) |
| Type of anti-malarial sold and adequacy of dosage † | ||||||||
| Sold AQ | 38/43 (88.4%) | 20/36 (55.6%) | 0.002 | 6.1 (1.9, 19.0) | 19/32 (59.4%) | 8/42 (19.1%) | <0.001 | 6.2 (2.2, 17.7) |
| Sold AQ with adequate advice | 26/43 (60.5%) | 1/36 (2.8%) | <0.001 | 53.5 (6.7, 428.3) | 6/32 (18.8%) | 1/42 (2.3%) | 0.038 | 9.4 (1.1, 83.1) |
| Sold AQ with adequate advice on dose/all AQ sold | 26/38 (68.4%) | 1/20 (5.0%) | <0.001 | 41.2 (4.9, 344.4) | 6/19 (31.6%) | 1/8 (12.5%) | 0.633 | 3.3 (0.3, 33.9) |
| Sold SP | 2/43 (4.7%) | 8/36 (22.2%) | 0.037 | 0.2 (0.03, 0.9) | 8/32 (25.0%) | 15/42 (35.7%) | 0.324 | 0.6 (0.2, 1.7) |
| Sold SP with adequate advice | 0/36 (0%) | 5/36 (13.8%) | 0.017 | NA | 4/32 (12.5%) | 8/42 (19.0%) | 0.536 | 0.6 (0.2, 2.2) |
*Note: the denominator was all medicines sold.
†the denominator is the outlets where either SP or AQ medicines were available at the time of the survey.