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Table 4 Practices: treatment and DOT

From: Village malaria worker performance key to the elimination of artemisinin-resistant malaria: a Western Cambodia health system assessment

Treatment

Overall N = 197

Zone 1 N = 71

Zone 2 N = 126

P value

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

Place where malaria patients get treated

 At VMW/MMW’s home

193

98.0

71

100.0

122

96.8

0.129

 At the patient’s home

156

79.2

61

85.9

95

75.4

0.081

 Othera

2

1.02

0

0.0

2

1.6

0.286

Malaria patient is directly-observed for the first dose of medication

 Yes

194

98.5

70

98.6

124

98.4

0.693

 No

2

1.0

1

1.4

1

0.79

 Sometimes

1

0.5

0

0

1

0.79

Malaria patient is directly-observed for the 2nd and 3rd days of treatment

 Yes

112

56.9

35

49.3

77

61.1

0.265

 No

27

13.7

12

16.9

15

11.9

 Sometimes

58

29.4

24

33.8

34

27.0

Barriers faced when providing directly-observed treatment

 Problem of transportation to patients’ home

151

76.7

65

91.6

86

68.3

0.000

 Long distance to patients home

149

75.6

63

88.73

86

68.3

0.001

 Self-treatment

26

13.2

5

7.0

21

16.7

0.055

 The patient disagreed

24

12.2

10

14.1

14

11.1

0.540

 No knowledge of malaria drug resistance

21

10.7

5

7.0

16

12.7

0.217

 Treatment with other providers

3

1.5

0

0.0

3

2.4

0.190

 Otherc

2

1.0

0

0.0

2

1.0

0.286

 Don’t knowb

11

5.6

0

0.0

11

8.7

0.537

  1. aOther includes: farm, rice field
  2. bFisher exact test was used to calculate for significance
  3. cOther include: death, more severe, waste of time