Table 12.
Correct treatment counselling: Proportion of caretakers to whom the HCWs mentioned both the number of doses a day and the number of days for home-based treatment
| Treatment | Baseline | Control arm | Intervention arm | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Na | % | 95%CI | Na | % | 95%CI | Na | % | 95%CI | ||||
| Oral antibiotics for pneumonia b | 290 | 81.7 | 70.3 | 89.4 | 538 | 93.9 | 90.9 | 95.9 | 228 | 91.7 | 88.8 | 93.8 |
| Artemisinin-based Combinnation Therapy (ACT) c | 470 | 93.6 | 89.1 | 96.3 | 721 | 96.4 | 94.1 | 97.8 | 360 | 96.7 | 94.5 | 98.0 |
| ORS | 99 | 46.5 | 25.1 | 69.2 | 264 | 86.7 | 77.4 | 92.6 | 148 | 84.5 | 59.6 | 95.2 |
| Zinc | 99 | 83.8 | 74.9 | 90.0 | 268 | 94.0 | 91.7 | 95.7 | 153 | 87.6 | 63.9 | 96.6 |
| Oral anti-infectious for dysentery d | 19 | 57.9 | 26.5 | 84.0 | 54 | 83.3 | 69.5 | 91.7 | 18 | 94.4 | 70.0 | 99.2 |
| Deworming treatments e | 73 | 80.8 | 59.4 | 92.4 | 111 | 94.6 | 77.2 | 98.9 | 68 | 89.7 | 73.6 | 96.5 |
| Iron/ folic acid | 42 | 47.6 | 19.5 | 77.3 | 40 | 92.5 | 69.0 | 98.6 | 72 | 83.3 | 58.8 | 94.6 |
| Plumpy nut or equivalent | 28 | 32.1 | 17.6 | 51.3 | 16 | 75.0 | 41.0 | 92.8 | 27 | 63.0 | 55.8 | 69.6 |
aNumber of children who were prescribed, by the HCWs, a given treatment (regardless of the classification)
b Amoxicillin, Cotrimoxazole; c Artesunate + Amodiaquine, Artemether/ Lumefantrine; d Ciprofloxacin, Metronidazole; e Albendazole, Mebendazole