Table 5.

Patients with ear and hearing disorders recorded at the 10 health centres

	Baseline (1 month preintervention)	Third month after intervention	Sixth month after intervention
Intervention group
Chimaliro	28	8	26
Chisoka	7	13	8
Changata	14	7	5
Gombe	11	6	2
Bvumbwe	—	—	—
Total (%)	60 (88)	34 (85)	41 (77)
Mean	15	1.5	10.3
p Value		0.31	0.16
Control group
Satemwa	2	3	2
Nansonia	1	0	0
Zoa	5	1	5
Ntambanyama	0	2	5
Nsabwe	—	—	—
Total (%)	8 (12)	6 (15)	12 (23)
Mean	2	1.5	3
p Value		0.73	0.51

Data were not collected for the two health centres.