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Table 2 General characteristics of adherence study population (patients and caretakers)

From: High adherence to malaria treatment: promising results of an adherence study in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Patient (n = 148)

Caretaker (n = 92)

 

n

%

n

%

Age classes (years)

 <5

42

28.4

–

–

 ≥5

106

71.6

92

100.0

 Mean, median (minimum–maximum)

13.4, 10 (1–60)

34.4, 32 (13–68)

  

Gender

 Male

62

41.9

26

28.3

 Female

86

58.1

66

71.7

Highest education level

 Illiterate

7a

12.5

21

22.8

 Primary

16a

28.6

23

25.0

 Secondary

33a

58.9

43

46.7

 Higher

–

–

5

5.5

Household size

 1–4 members

9

6.1

  

 5–15 members

114

77.0

  

 >15 members

25

16.9

  

 Mean household size (members)

10.6

   

Household owns ≥1 insecticide-treated mosquito net

137

92.6

  

Numbers of children <5 years per households

 0 children

14

9.5

  

 1 child

28

18.9

  

 2–4 children

91

61.5

  

 5–9 children

15

10.1

  

Mean number of children <5 years per household

2.4

   

Main 3 professions of heads of households

 Subsistence farmer

58

39.2

  

 Civil servant

15

10.1

  

 Teacher

13

8.8

  
  1. a7/56, 16/56 or 33/56 patients who came to the OPDs without a caretaker