Table 5.

Impact of MDRT on malaria parasite detection, species identification and parasite quantification among study participants

Variable	Poisson regression model with robust standard error	Negative binomial regression model with robust standard error
	RR [95% CI]	RR [95% CI]
Malaria parasite detection
Before intervention	Ref	Ref
After intervention	1.34 [1.32–1.35] ***	1.36 [1.33—1.39]***
Malaria species identification
Before Intervention	Ref	Ref
After Intervention	3.31 [3.26–3.37] ***	3.99 [3.67–4.34]***
Malaria parasite quantification
Before intervention	Ref	Ref
After intervention	2.92 [2.86–2.98] ***	3.41 [3.01–3.88]***
Overall performance of participants
Before intervention	Ref	Ref
After intervention	2.03 [2.00–2.06] ***	2.07 [2.01–2.13]***

RR: rate ratio, Ref: Reference category

***p < 0.001