TABLE 1—
Sample Characteristics of Children With Fever, Acute Respiratory Infection, or Diarrhea Before the Application of Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting: Liberia, 2015–2016
| Baseline |
Follow-Up |
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| Respondent Characteristics (by Child) | Intervention (n = 180), % (95% CI) or Mean (95% CI) | Control (n = 160), % (95% CI) or Mean (95% CI) | Intervention (n = 190), % (95% CI) or Mean (95% CI) | Control (n = 302), % (95% CI) or Mean (95% CI) |
| Child’s household located in mining community, % | 27.8 (15.2, 45.2) | 10.0 (3.2, 27.0) | 29.5 (16.3, 47.4) | 2.3 (0.6, 8.2) |
| Child’s household reachable by motorcycle, % | 88.3 (73.8, 95.3) | 74.4 (56.2, 86.8) | 72.6 (53.2, 86.1) | 75.2 (62.4, 84.7) |
| Mother’s education (any), % | 56.1 (48.1, 63.8) | 56.9 (49.4, 64.0) | 45.8 (37.4, 54.5) | 51.7 (44.7, 58.6) |
| Mother’s survey language, % | ||||
| English | 48.3 (37.4, 59.4) | 31.9 (23.0, 42.3) | 42.1 (28.3, 57.3) | 16.9 (11.7, 23.8) |
| Bassa | 51.7 (40.6, 62.6) | 68.1 (57.7, 77.0) | 57.9 (42.7, 71.8) | 83.1 (76.2, 88.3) |
| Mother married or cohabitating, % | 86.7 (80.6, 91.0) | 84.4 (78.9, 88.7) | 90.5 (85.6, 93.9) | 92.7 (88.2, 95.6) |
| Number of illnesses per child in the past 2 wk, % | ||||
| 1 illness | 51.7 (44.0, 59.2) | 62.5 (55.8, 68.8) | 61.1 (54.4, 67.3) | 49.3 (42.1, 56.6) |
| ≥ 2 illnesses | 48.3 (40.8, 56.0) | 37.5 (31.2, 44.2) | 39.0 (32.7, 45.6) | 50.7 (43.4, 57.9) |
| Child’s household distance from facility, km, mean | 13.3 (11.5, 15.2) | 8.6 (7.6, 9.5) | 15.3 (13.0, 17.6) | 8.9 (7.9, 9.9) |
| Child’s household wealth index score relative to DHS Rural,a mean | −0.59 (−0.71, −0.47) | −0.53 (−0.67, −0.38) | −0.55 (−0.67, −0.42) | −0.50 (−0.63, −0.36) |
| Mother’s no. of children, mean | ||||
| Aged < 5 y | 1.38 (1.27, 1.49) | 1.65 (1.55, 1.75) | 1.61 (1.47, 1.75) | 1.67 (1.58, 1.75) |
| Aged < 1 y | 0.40 (0.28, 0.52) | 0.44 (0.34, 0.54) | 0.34 (0.28, 0.40) | 0.40 (0.34, 0.46) |
| Mother’s age, y, mean | 29.0 (28.2, 29.8) | 28.0 (27.0, 29.0) | 28.6 (27.7, 29.5) | 28.8 (28.0, 29.7) |
Note. CI = confidence interval. Estimates in this table incorporate sampling weights only.
a
DHS Rural refers to the wealth index calculated for rural areas in Liberia in the 2013 Demographic Health Survey.1,20