Table 2.
Proportion of health workers who thought SP was appropriate treatment for uncomplicated malaria, year 2002
|
Character variable |
Category (N=254) |
Children<5 n (%) |
p-value |
Older children/ adults n (%) |
p-value |
Pregnant women n (%) |
p-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP: n=112 (44.1) | *Other drug: n=139 (54.7) | DK/ Missing: n=3 (1.2) | SP: n=173 (68) | *Other drug: n=79 (31.1) | DK/ Missing: n=2 (0.8) | SP: n=131 (51.6) | *Other drug: n=116 (45.7) | DK/ Missing: n=7 (2.7) | ||||||
| District |
Morogoro (73) |
33 (45.2) |
39 (53.4) |
1 (1.3) |
0.662 |
48 (65.8) |
25 (34.2) |
- |
0.085 |
27 (36.9) |
44 (60.3) |
2 (2.7) |
0.032 |
|
| Rufiji (85) |
38 (44.7) |
45 (52.9) |
2 (2.3) |
|
64 (75.3) |
19 (22.4) |
2 (2.3) |
|
53 (62.4) |
30 (35.3) |
2 (2.3) |
|
||
| K/Ulanga (96) |
41 (42.7) |
55 (57.3) |
- |
|
61 (63.5) |
35 (36.5) |
- |
|
51 (53.1) |
42 (43.7) |
3 (3.1) |
|
||
| Health facility type |
Hospitals (93) |
39 (34.5) |
53 (64.3) |
1 (1.2) |
<0.001 |
103 (60.2) |
66 (38.6) |
2 (1.2) |
72 (42.1) |
0.049 |
92 (53.8) |
7 (4.1) |
<0.001 |
|
| Health Centers (45) |
27 (60.0) |
17 (37.8) |
1 (2.2) |
|
37 (82.2) |
8 (17.8) |
- |
|
31 (68.9) |
14 (31.1) |
- |
|
||
| Dispensaries (38) |
26 (68.4) |
12 (31.6) |
- |
|
33 (86.8) |
5 (13.2) |
- |
|
28 (73.7) |
10 (26.3) |
- |
|
||
| HF ownership |
Public (176) |
92 (52.3) |
82 (46.6) |
2 (1.1) |
<0.001 |
126 (71.6) |
49 (27.8) |
1 (0.6) |
0.189 |
113 (64.2) |
59 (33.5) |
4 (2.3) |
<0.001 |
|
| Non-public (78) |
20 (25.6) |
57 (73.1) |
1 (1.3) |
|
47 (60.3) |
30 (38.5) |
1 (1.3) |
|
18 (23.1) |
57 (73.1) |
3 (3.8) |
|
||
| Cadre of health worker |
Physicians (6) |
0 |
6 (100) |
- |
<0.001 |
5 (83.3) |
1(16.7) |
- |
0.01 |
- |
6 (100) |
- |
0.007 |
|
| Clinical Officers (51) |
22 (43.1) |
29 (56.9) |
- |
|
38 (74.5) |
13 (25.5) |
- |
|
24 (47.1) |
27 (52.9) |
- |
|
||
| Trained nurses (70) |
25 (35.7) |
45 (64.3) |
- |
|
43 (61.4) |
27 (38.6) |
- |
|
30 (42.9) |
38 (54.3) |
2 (2.8) |
|
||
| Other nurses (118) |
63 (53.4) |
54 (45.8) |
1 (0.8) |
|
84 (71.2) |
33 (27.9) |
1 (0.9) |
|
74 (62.7) |
40 (33.9) |
4 (3.4) |
|
||
| Other cadres (9) | 2 (22.2) | 5 (55.6) | 2 (22.2) | 3 (33.3) | 5 (55.6) | 1 (1.1) | 3 (33.3) | 5 (55.6) | 1 (11.1) | |||||
*Other drugs includes: Chloroquine, Amodiaquine, Artemisinins, Quinine or any combination of these P-value: Chi squared test.