Table 2.

Incidence of all-cause hospital admissions, hospital admissions for severe malaria and all-cause mortality by group

	SMC−		SMC+		IRR		IRR
	Numbers of Episodes (child-years)	Incidence rate per 1000 person-years	Numbers of Episodes (child-years)	Incidence rate per 1000 person-years	Unadjusted (95% CI)	p-value	Adjusted (95% CI)a	p-value
All-cause Hospital admissions	129 (3856.222)	33.45	54 (2754.077)	19.60	0.58 (0.41–0.81)	< 0.001	0.61 (0.44–0.84)	0.003
Hospital admissions for severe malaria	98 (3856.222)	25.41	36 (2754.077)	13.07	0.51 (0.34–0.76)	< 0.001	0.53 (0.36–0.79)	0.002
All-cause Mortality	32 (3856.222)	8.29	10 (2754.077)	3.63	0.43 (0.19–0.91)	0.022	0.44 (0.22–0.91)	0.002

SMC−, control group; SMC+, intervention Group

^aAdjusted for age and gender