Table 6.
Sensitivity of the HCW’s classification: Proportion of children correctly classified in a given classification
| Baseline | Control arm | Intervention arm | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classification | Na | % | 95%CI | Na | % | 95%CI | Na | % | 95%CI | |||
| Severe pneumonia or very severe disease | 14 | 14.3 | 2.5 | 51.7 | 10 | 20.0 | 1.3 | 82.6 | 4 | 25.0 | – | – |
| Pneumonia | 185 | 75.7 | 66.6 | 82.9 | 218 | 71.6 | 65.6 | 76.9 | 169 | 76.3 | 46.8 | 92.2 |
| Pneumonia ignoring severity | 199 | 75.9 | 67.0 | 83.0 | 228 | 73.3 | 65.8 | 79.5 | 173 | 78.6 | 50.5 | 93.0 |
| Severe dehydration | 5 | 60.0 | 20.1 | 90.0 | 1 | 0.0 | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Dehydration | 5 | 80.0 | 17.1 | 98.7 | 2 | 50.0 | 0.6 | 99.4 | 3 | 66.7 | 1.1 | 99.7 |
| Diarrhoea with no dehydration | 175 | 58.3 | 44.5 | 70.9 | 343 | 64.7 | 51.9 | 75.7 | 189 | 74.6 | 62.9 | 83.6 |
| Severe persistent diarrhoea | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Persistent diarrhoea | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | – |
| Diarrhoea ignoring severity | 185 | 61.1 | 48.1 | 72.7 | 346 | 65.9 | 52.6 | 77.1 | 192 | 76.6 | 64.8 | 85.3 |
| Dysentery | 12 | 41.7 | 22.9 | 63.2 | 27 | 44.4 | 29.3 | 60.6 | 12 | 83.3 | 17.8 | 99.1 |
| Severe malaria or severe febrile illness | 23 | 60.9 | 37.7 | 80.0 | 24 | 62.5 | 36.1 | 83.1 | 17 | 82.4 | 53.2 | 95.0 |
| Malaria | 475 | 93.9 | 90.9 | 96.0 | 734 | 92.0 | 87.6 | 94.9 | 366 | 91.0 | 87.7 | 93.4 |
| Malaria ignoring severity | 498 | 95.0 | 91.9 | 96.9 | 758 | 93.1 | 90.0 | 95.3 | 383 | 93.0 | 87.5 | 96.1 |
| Severe acute malnutrition | 22 | 81.8 | 50.0 | 95.3 | 45 | 57.8 | 37.6 | 75.6 | 23 | 91.3 | 67.6 | 98.1 |
| Moderate acute malnutrition | 56 | 46.4 | 29.9 | 63.8 | 120 | 41.7 | 31.6 | 52.5 | 95 | 62.1 | 52.2 | 71.1 |
| Malnutrition ignoring severity | 78 | 68.0 | 52.8 | 80.0 | 165 | 55.2 | 45.5 | 64.4 | 118 | 75.4 | 63.1 | 84.6 |
a Number of children classified, by the validation nurses, with a given classification