Table 1. Characteristics of sampled and simulated households: 2007 and 2008.
2007 | 2008 | |||||
SampledHouseholds | SimulatedHouseholds | p-value | SampledHouseholds | SimulatedHouseholds | p-value | |
Number of households | 48 | 7,980 | 75 | 7,961 | ||
Number of individuals screened | 284 | 47,058 | 403 | 42,620 | ||
Residents per household (mean, SD) | 5.93 (3.13) | 5.90 (3.07) | .927 | 5.37 (2.69) | 5.35 (2.65) | .949 |
Mean age (mean, SD) | 25.26 (15.77) | 25.04 (15.37) | .942 | 26.74 (16.32) | 26.76 (16.13) | .975 |
Households with an RDT positive individual (%) | 66.7 | 74.4 | .245 | 24.0 | 16.8 | .119 |
Households with an individual taking antimalarials (%) | 10.4 | 21.1 | .076 | 9.3 | 22.1 | .007 |
Households with an individual with care seeking behavior (%) | 70.8 | 86.8 | .004 | 85.3 | 82.4 | .647 |
Households with an individual with malaria-like symptoms (%) | 75.0 | 70.0 | .529 | 64.0 | 70.0 | .258 |
Households with an individual with malaria-like symptoms and care seeking behavior (%) | 37.5 | 31.1 | .349 | 34.7 | 34.1 | .903 |
Households with an individual taking antimalarials with care seeking behavior (%) | 22.9 | 24.7 | .868 | 6.7 | 4.5 | .067 |
Total households identified through reactive case detection (%) | 34.3 | 42.5 | .393 | 40.9 | 49.9 | .521 |