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Table 1 Summary of treatment practices for first action (health care) taken during recent fever in children (< 5 yrs)

From: Assessing malaria control in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana through repeated surveys using the RBM tools

 

Survey period

 

2000

2003

p-value

Treatment practices

N = 184 %

N = 185 %

 

Action taken within 24 hrs

67.4

93.0

< 0.001

Appropriateness of prescription (drug prescribed vis-à-vis signs/symptoms)

39.7

56.3

0.001

Appropriateness of medication taken (dosage regimen by mother vis-à-vis national treatment guide line)

21.2

15.9

0.17