Scale-up of community-based malaria control can be achieved without degrading community health workers' service quality: the Village Malaria Worker project in Cambodia

Table 1 Selected socio-demographic characteristics of the study population

Characteristics	Pre and post scale-up survey participants (n = 195)				Post scale-up survey participants (n = 252)
	Mean	SD	Number	%Total	Mean	SD	Number	%Total
Age	38.0	12.4			37.2	12.2
Education (final grade)	3.7	2.7			3.6	2.7
Gender*
Male			160	82.1			203	80.6
Female			35	17.9			47	18.7
Occupation
Farmer			187	95.9			242	96.0
Other			8	4.1			10	4.0
Region
Mountainous			118	60.5			157	62.3
Other			77	39.5			95	37.7
Ethnicity*
Khmer			64	32.8			75	29.8
Other			131	67.2			161	63.9
VMW career (months): pre scale-up	40.2	15.2			N/A	N/A
VMW career (months): post scale-up	71.0	8.3			69.1	12.3
Reason for becoming VMW
Recommended by villagers			100	51.3			102	40.5
Interested in malaria treatment/prevention			95	48.7			150	59.5
Most recent VMW training attended (months ago): pre scale-up	15.6	5.0			N/A	N/A
Most recent VMW training attended (months ago): post scale-up	7.5	0.5			7.5	0.6
Most recent training for fever, diarrhoea, ARI treatment attended (months ago)	7.5	0.5			7.5	0.6

*2 missing data on gender and 16 missing data on ethnicity in post scale-up survey

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