The amount and value of work time of community medicine distributors in community case management of malaria among children under five years in the Ejisu-Juaben District of Ghana

Table 3 Summary of activities and time spent by CMD per day

Variable	Mean	95% CI
Children seen per day	1.8	1.8-1.9
Time spent on seeing children (hrs)/day	0.4	20.9-21.1
No of Health education activities/day	2.5	2.3-2.6
Time spent on IEC (hrs)	0.2	11.4-12.8
Follow-ups/day	**2.6	2.4-2.8
Hours on follow-up/child	1.7	1.5-1.8
Total hours spent on CCMm activities/day	*4.8	3.9-5.3

* excludes hours spent during night visits by caregivers. Computed from 1936 observations from CMD time tracking sheets, hours could not be validated; ** a child was likely to be followed up more than once.

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