Table 4.

Variation in health-care worker Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guideline adherence score according to the sociodemographic characteristics of evaluated children

Variable	Global IMCI score		Danger signs		Cough/breathing difficulties		Fever		Diarrhea		Anemia		Nutrition
	Score	P value	Score	P value	Score	P value	Score	P value	Score	P value	Score	P value	Score	P value
Gender
Male	0.542	< 0.001	0.687	0.001	0.407	< 0.001	0.549	0.007	0.348	< 0.001	0.767	0.486	0.5	0.001
Female	0.453		0.535		0.032		0.479		0.128		0.802		0.411
Age, months
0–11	0.550	0.427	0.745	0.093	0.453	0.018	0.515	0.807	0.332	0.006	0.764	0.791	0.492	0.513
12–23	0.531		0.632		0.394		0.544		0.355		0.794		0.47
24–35	0.526		0.651		0.326		0.538		0.366		0.761		0.511
36–47	0.515		0.657		0.326		0.551		0.291		0.733		0.48
48–59	0.489		0.577		0.326		0.524		0.227		0.817		0.454
Residential area
Urban	0.436	< 0.001	0.539	< 0.001	0.341	0.027	0.585	< 0.001	0.259	< 0.001	0.604	< 0.001	0.42	< 0.001
Rural	0.578		0.726		0.403		0.45		0.36		0.872		0.519

IMCI = Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. Values in bold type are significant.