Table 4.
Personal and/ or family member use of SP for management of uncomplicated malaria in 2002 and 2004
|
Characteristic variable |
Category |
Self use N=247(%)–(2002) |
p-value |
Self use N=81(%) –(2004) |
p-value |
Own child/family N= 207(%)-(2002) |
p-value |
Own child/family N=84 (%) (2004) |
p-value |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP; n=135 (54.7) | *Other drug; n=112 (45.3) | SP; n=49 (60.5) | *Other drug; n=32 (39.5) | SP; n=124 (59.9) | *Other drug; n=83 (40.1) | SP; n=37 (44) | *Other drug; n=47 (55) | ||||||
| District |
Morogoro |
41 (56.2) |
32 (43.8) |
0.48 |
22 (66.7) |
11 (33.3) |
0.34 |
35 (47.9) |
26 (35.6) |
0.41 |
12 (40.0) |
18 (60.0) |
0.57 |
| Rufiji |
43 (50.6) |
38 (44.7) |
|
- |
- |
|
48 (56.5) |
23 (27.0) |
|
- |
- |
|
|
| K/Ulanga |
51 (53.1) |
42 (43.8) |
|
27 (56.2) |
21 (43.8) |
|
41 (42.7) |
34 (35.4) |
|
25 (46.3) |
29 (53.7) |
|
|
| Health facility type |
Hospitals |
86 (50.3) |
81 (47.4) |
0.16 |
22 (50.0) |
22 (50.0) |
0.08 |
68 (39.8) |
67 (39.2) |
<0.001 |
16 (32.0) |
34 (68.0) |
0.01 |
| Health Centers |
24 (53.3) |
18 (40.0) |
|
12 (66.7) |
6 (33.3) |
|
26 (57.8) |
12 (26.7) |
|
6 (50.0) |
6 (50.0) |
|
|
| Dispensaries |
25 (65.8) |
13 (34.2) |
|
15 (78.9) |
4 (21.1) |
|
30 (78.9) |
4 (10.5) |
|
15 (68.2) |
7(31.8) |
|
|
| HF ownership |
Public |
99 (56.3) |
72 (40.9) |
0.30 |
35 (71.4) |
14 (28.6) |
0.01 |
100 (56.8) |
52(29.6) |
<0.001 |
30 (58.8) |
21 (41.2) |
0.001 |
| Non-public |
36 (46.2) |
40 (51.3) |
|
14 (43.7) |
18 (56.3) |
|
24 (30.8) |
31 (39.7) |
|
7 (21.2) |
26 (78.8) |
|
|
| Cadre of health worker |
Physicians |
3 (50.0) |
3 (50.0) |
0.48 |
2 (100) |
0 |
0.19 |
2 (33.3) |
2 (33.3) |
0.01 |
0 |
3 (100) |
0.21 |
| Clinical Officers |
26 (51.0) |
25 (49.0) |
|
10 (83.3) |
2 (16.7) |
|
21 (41.2) |
13 (25.5) |
|
8 (66.7) |
4 (33.3) |
|
|
| Trained nurses |
34 (48.6) |
34 (48.6) |
|
18 (56.3) |
14 (43.7) |
|
28 (40.0) |
29 (41.4) |
|
11 (40.7) |
16 (59.3) |
|
|
| Other nurses |
69 (58.5) |
45 (38.1) |
|
19 (54.3) |
16 (45.7) |
|
66 (55.9) |
38 (32.2) |
|
18 (43.9) |
23 (56.1) |
|
|
| Other cadres | 3 (33.3) | 5 (55.6) | 0 | 0 | 7 (77.8) | 1 (11.1) | 0 | 1 (100) | |||||
*Other drugs includes: Chloroquine, Amodiaquine, Artemisinins, Quinine or a combination of these.