Table 2.

Maternal knowledge of signs of severe childhood illness

Signs of illness*	iCCM model A communities		iCCM model B communities
	Baseline (N = 209)	Post (N = 212)	Baseline (N = 230)	Post (N = 228)
Not playing	167 (79.9)	168 (79.2)	196 (85.2)	179 (78.5)**
Not eating or drinking	133 (63.6)	102 (48.1)†	113 (49.1)	103 (45.2)
Difficult to wake	104 (49.8)	76 (35.8)‡	66 (28.7)	84 (36.8)**
High fever	193 (92.3)	187 (88.2)	205 (89.1)	195 (85.5)
Vomits everything	140 (67.0)	84 (39.6)†	133 (57.8)	86 (37.7)†
Difficult breathing	97 (46.4)	53 (25.0)†	51 (22.2)	50 (21.9)
Convulsions	82 (39.2)	49 (23.1)‡	40 (17.4)	42 (18.4)

^*More than one response possible.

^**Comparison of baseline and post-study survey results (P = 0.06).

^†Comparison of baseline and post-study survey results (P < 0.001).

^‡Comparison of baseline and post-study survey results (P < 0.01).