Association between patient characteristics and having an mRDT from a CHW before taking any treatment
| Participant characteristics of those who took a test from CHW (n=948) | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||
| Unadjusted OR (95% CI) | P value | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P value | |
| Time to malaria test (reference=same day) | – | – | ||
| Next day | 0.96 (0.71, 1.3) | 0.80 | 0.96 (0.69, 1.3) | 0.81 |
| The second day | 0.73 (0.44, 1.2) | 0.22 | 0.68 (0.42, 1.1) | 0.12 |
| More than 2 days | 0.81 (0.49, 1.3) | 0.41 | 0.87 (0.50, 1.5) | 0.62 |
| Use an ITN (reference=does not use an ITN) | 0.57 (0.41, 0.7) | <0.01 | 0.77 (0.55, 1.0) | 0.11 |
| Distance to public health facility >2 km (reference=<2 km) | 1.32 (0.80, 2.2) | 0.28 | 1.29 (0.82, 2.0) | 0.27 |
| Patient age (reference=1–4 years) | – | – | ||
| 5–17 years | 2.43 (1.49, 3.9) | <0.01 | 2.39 (1.43, 4.0) | <0.01 |
| 18+ years | 0.98 (0.67, 1.4) | 0.91 | 1.09 (0.72, 1.6) | 0.68 |
| Patient is male (reference=female) | 1.23 (0.98, 1.5) | 0.07 | 1.02 (0.82, 1.2) | 0.85 |
| Respondent education level (reference=none) | – | – | ||
| Completed primary | 0.86 (0.69, 1.0) | 0.22 | 0.96 (0.75, 1.2) | 0.74 |
| Completed secondary | 0.45 (0.29, 0.6) | <0.01 | 0.68 (0.44, 1.0) | 0.10 |
| Wealth quintile (reference=0th–20th) | – | – | ||
| 20th–40th | 1.13 (0.65, 1.9) | 0.671 | 1.11 (0.63, 1.9) | 0.72 |
| 40th–60th | 0.83 (0.63, 1.0) | 0.175 | 0.79 (0.58, 1.0) | 0.11 |
| 60th–80th | 0.67 (0.47, 0.9) | 0.028 | 0.66 (0.45, 0.9) | 0.03 |
| >80th | 0.26 (0.13, 0.5) | <0.001 | 0.32 (0.17, 0.6) | <0.01 |
This table refers to those who reported getting a test from a CHW.
In this analysis, awareness of a CHW in the village was not included as a covariate because 100% of individuals who had a test by a CHW were also aware of the CHW in the village. Of note, 73.5% of those tested elsewhere were also aware of a CHW in their village.
Bold indicate results significant to p<0.05.
CHW, community health worker; ITN, insecticide-treated net; mRDT, malaria rapid diagnostic test.