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Table 1 Characteristics of staff interviewed in the provider survey (cluster summaries from the 9 intervention and 9 control clusters)

From: The effect of an anti-malarial subsidy programme on the quality of service provision of artemisinin-based combination therapy in Kenya: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial

 

Baseline

Follow up

 

Control% (SD) n

Intervention% (SD) n

Control% (SD) n

All Intervention% (SD) n

Trained Intervention% (SD) n

Trained & Job aid Intervention% (SD) n

No. of outlets

263

205

319

320

154

62

Outlet type:

      

Specialized drug stores

19.6 (8.4) 49

26.2 (16.3) 53

17.8 (7.3) 56

22.9 (8.7) 74

31.1 (5.5) 49

33.9 (28.6) 21

General stores

80.4 (8.4) 214

73.8 (16.3) 152

81.9 (7.6) 262

77.1 (8.7) 246

68.8 (5.5) 105

66.1 (28.6) 41

Other

0 (0) 0

0 (0) 0

0.3 (1.0) 1

0 (0) 0

0 (0) 0

0 (0) 0

Outlets with at least one member of staff usually serving customers with the following characteristics:

      

Primary education complete and above

79.2 (9.1) 211

76.8 (17.0) 159

74.8 (11.5) 237

68.7 (13.1) 222

72.6 (18.2) 111

70.4 (23.9) 42

Any clinical training1

21.3 (8.1) 55

23.5 (18.8) 51

15.7 (6.7) 50

18.9 (8.4) 63

24.3 (6.3) 40

27.4 (28.2) 16

Below 16 years

3.5 (5.8) 8

3.3 (3.5) 7

3.4 (3.5) 10

2.1 (2.7) 6

2.1 (4.2) 4

2.7 (5.5) 2

Distance to nearest road:

      

Metres (SD)

187.7 (123.8)

326.6 (286.9)

201.6 (121.5)

231.4 (98.8)

256.3 (156.7)

300.6 (213.6)

  1. n=numerator (denominator for all indicators is shown under No. of outlets).
  2. 1 Any clinical related training consists of: pharmacy, nurse and medical doctor related training; Pharmacy related training includes pharmacy studied to a certificate or diploma level; Nurse related training includes studying nursing to a certificate level (nurse aid) and diploma level; Medical doctor training includes clinical officer who studied medicine to a diploma level.
  3. Note: In the mystery shopper survey, a total of 499 outlets were successfully interviewed at baseline, 284 and 215 in control and intervention arms respectively, and 653 outlets at follow-up, 336 in the control and 317 in the intervention arm.