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. 2019 Oct 16;26(1):21–25. doi: 10.1080/13814788.2019.1676415

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics between groups.

  Access to booklet
(n = 303)
Use of booklet
(n = 109)
Control
(n = 250)
Total
(n = 553)
Complete RCT
(n = 25,355)
Mean age (years, SD) 3.12 (2.7) 2.78 (2.6) 2.78 (2.6) 2.97 (2.6) 3.2 (2.7)
Male sex N (%) 153 (50.5) 36 (50.0) 143 (57.2) 296 (53.5) 13,413 (52.9)
ICPC code N (%)          
 A03.00 (fever) 62 (20.5) 28 (25.7) 51 (20.4) 113 (20.4) 4,654 (18.4)
 H71.00 (OMA) 44 (14.5) 15 (13.8) 41 (16.4) 85 (15.4) 5,010 (19.8)
 R74.00 (RTI) 69 (22.8) 29 (26.6) 56 (22.4) 125 (22.6) 3,476 (13.8)
 Other 126 (41.6) 35 (32.1) 101 (40.4) 227 (41.0)
SES N (%)*          
 Low 40 (13.2) 18 (16.5) 37 (14.8) 41 (12.7) 4,087 (16.2)
 Middle 217 (71.6) 76 (69.7) 189 (75.6) 243 (75.2) 17,514 (69.5)
 High 43 (14.2) 14 (12.8) 24 (9.6) 38 (11.8) 3,582 (14.2)

*Three cases were missing for SES in the access to booklet group and one case was missing in the use of booklet group.