Improving childhood malaria treatment and referral practices by training patent medicine vendors in rural south-east Nigeria

Table 1 Exit interview for drug vendors

	1^st month (n = 190)	4^th month (n = 100)	8^th month (n = 188)	X² for trends P value
Correct history questions asked	83 (43.7%)	75 (75%)	173 (92%)	101.3 p < 0.001*
Reference to dose guides	80 (42.1%)	69 (69%)	171 (90.9%)	100.7 P < 0.001*
Correct treatment given	80 (42.1%)	69 (69%)	171 (90.9%)	100.7 p < 0.001*
**Correct verbal advice	71 (37.3%)	63 (63%)	167 (88.8%)	106.7, p < 0.001*
Stamped envelope given	83 (43.7%)	63 (63%)	174 (92.6%)	102.6, p < 0.001*

* = significant.
** = correct advice was regarded as (telling clients how to take their drugs, side effects of the drugs and what to do if symptoms persists)

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