Table 2.

Characteristics of children < 5 years of age enrolled in the survey and diagnoses given by HCWs, southern Malawi, January–March 2015 (N = 723)

Characteristics	N	Weighted* %	95% CI
Age in months
< 2 months	29	3.9	2.1–5.7
2–11 months	160	21.5	18.2–24.7
12–59 months	534	74.7	71.0–78.3
Male	366	50.0	46.4–53.5
Sought care at another facility prior to this visit	28	2.8	1.4–4.1
Presenting complaints spontaneously reported by caregivers to HCWs†
Fever	522	77.2	73.2–81.1
Cough or difficult breathing	273	37.1	31.7–42.5
Diarrhea	231	30.1	24.1–36.0
Vomiting	150	21.5	18.1–25.0
Skin problem	84	10.4	7.4–13.4
Stomach ache	61	9.0	6.0–12.0
Malaria	58	8.3	5.1–11.5
Chills	45	7.9	3.9–11.8
Weakness	16	3.1	1.0–5.2
Signs consistent with general danger signs‡	5	0.5	0–0.5
Others	143	17.4	13.4–21.5
Diagnoses given by HCWs§
Malaria	338	53.3	44.8–61.8
Diarrhea	158	21.1	16.1–26.0
Acute respiratory illness	154	20.0	15.6–24.5
Sepsis	87	10.6	6.3–14.8
Pneumonia	64	8.9	4.2–13.5
Skin problem	57	6.6	4.4–8.7
Dysentery	23	3.0	1.2–4.8
Others	79	11.2	7.6–14.9
No diagnosis given	9	2.2	0.05–4.4
Number of diagnoses given by HCWs∥
0	9	2.2	0.05–4.4
1	483	64.6	57.8–71.5
2	203	28.3	21.0–35.6
3	27	4.7	2.2–7.2
4	1	0.2	0–0.6

CI = confidence interval; HCW = health-care worker.

^*Accounts for outpatient department and patient sampling probabilities and nonresponse. The analysis also accounts for clustering at the health facility level.

^†Patients can present with more than one presenting signs or symptoms.

^‡Includes any one of the following: history of convulsions, vomiting everything, unable to drink or breastfeed, lethargic or unconscious.

^§More than one diagnoses can be given by HCWs.

^∥Any of the diagnoses classified as “others” were counted as one diagnosis, regardless of the number of diagnoses in that category.