Table 1.
Demographics of study populations in three hospitals
| Parameters | Hospitals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Details | Enrollment N (%) |
Public 1 N (%) |
Public 2 N (%) |
Private N (%) |
|
| Total enrollment | 1131 | 317 | 488 | 326 | |
| Blood smear slide examination | 936 | 317 | 307 | 312 | |
| Malaria rapid diagnosis test | 126 | 0 | 126 | 0 | |
| Presumptive diagnosis | 69 | 0 | 55 | 14 | |
| Gender | Male | 464 (41.0) | 127 (40.1) | 195 (40.0) | 142 (43.6) |
| Female | 687 (59.0) | 190 (59.9) | 293 (60.0) | 184 (56.4) | |
| Age | < 5 years | 138 (12.2) | 66 (20.8) | 60 (12.3) | 12 (3.7) |
| 5–15 years | 344 (30.4) | 96 (30.3) | 190 (38.9) | 58 (17.8) | |
| ≥ 15 years | 649 (57.4) | 155 (48.9) | 238 (48.8) | 256 (78.5) | |
| Education | lliterate | 68 (6.0) | 6 (1.9) | 41 (8.5) | 21 (6.4) |
| Pre-primary | 85 (7.5) | 68 (21.5) | 9 (1.8%) | 8 (2.5) | |
| Primary | 454 (40.1) | 99 (31.2) | 309 (63.3) | 46 (14.1) | |
| Secondary | 349 (30.9) | 107 (33.8) | 120 (24.6) | 122 (37.4) | |
| College & above | 175 (14.8) | 37 (11.7) | 9 (1.8) | 129 (39.6) | |
| Occupation | Farmer | 135 (11.9) | 39 (12.3) | 59 (12.1) | 37 (11.3) |
| Business person | 227 (20.1) | 42 (13.2) | 120 (24.6) | 65 (19.9) | |
| Office worker | 48 (4.2) | 15 (4.7) | 4 (0.8) | 29 (8.9) | |
| Unemployed | 71 (6.3) | 15 (4.7) | 3 (0.6) | 53 (16.3) | |
| Student | 529 (46.8) | 138 (43.5) | 266 (54.5) | 125 (38.3) | |
| Non-school child | 103 (9.1) | 66 (20.8) | 31 (6.4) | 6 (1.8) | |
| Others | 18 (1.6) | 2 (0.6) | 5 (1.0) | 11 (3.4) | |