Table 1.
Selected socio-demographic characteristics of the study population
| Characteristics | Pre and post scale-up survey participants (n = 195) | Post scale-up survey participants (n = 252) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Number | %Total | Mean | SD | Number | %Total | |
| Age | 38.0 | 12.4 | 37.2 | 12.2 | ||||
| Education (final grade) | 3.7 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 2.7 | ||||
| Gender* | ||||||||
| Male | 160 | 82.1 | 203 | 80.6 | ||||
| Female | 35 | 17.9 | 47 | 18.7 | ||||
| Occupation | ||||||||
| Farmer | 187 | 95.9 | 242 | 96.0 | ||||
| Other | 8 | 4.1 | 10 | 4.0 | ||||
| Region | ||||||||
| Mountainous | 118 | 60.5 | 157 | 62.3 | ||||
| Other | 77 | 39.5 | 95 | 37.7 | ||||
| Ethnicity* | ||||||||
| Khmer | 64 | 32.8 | 75 | 29.8 | ||||
| Other | 131 | 67.2 | 161 | 63.9 | ||||
| VMW career (months): pre scale-up | 40.2 | 15.2 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| VMW career (months): post scale-up | 71.0 | 8.3 | 69.1 | 12.3 | ||||
| Reason for becoming VMW | ||||||||
| Recommended by villagers | 100 | 51.3 | 102 | 40.5 | ||||
| Interested in malaria treatment/prevention | 95 | 48.7 | 150 | 59.5 | ||||
| Most recent VMW training attended (months ago): pre scale-up | 15.6 | 5.0 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Most recent VMW training attended (months ago): post scale-up | 7.5 | 0.5 | 7.5 | 0.6 | ||||
| Most recent training for fever, diarrhoea, ARI treatment attended (months ago) | 7.5 | 0.5 | 7.5 | 0.6 | ||||
*2 missing data on gender and 16 missing data on ethnicity in post scale-up survey