Completion of community health worker initiated patient referrals in integrated community case management in rural Uganda

Table 2 Association of patient, caregiver and referral characteristics with referral completion at BHC III, n = 136

	Completed referral at BHC III	Did not complete referral at BHC III	p-value
Caregiver age (years), median [IQR]	25 [22–30]	27 [22–32]	0.2013
Child age (years), median [IQR]	1.37 [0.60–3.0]	1.88 [1.02–3.04]	0.1353
Child gender, n (%)			0.6202
Male	50 (77%)	15 (23%)
Female	52 (73%)	19 (27%)
Primary caregiver relationship to child (n = 135)
Biological mother	96 (78%)	27 (22%)
Biological grandmother	4 (57%)	3 (43%)	0.2168^a
Biological father	1 (100%)	0 (0%)	0.9889
Biological aunt	0 (0%)	1 (100%)	0.9887
Other	0 (0%)	3 (100%)	0.9805
Village
1	19 (95%)	1 (5%)
2	5 (63%)	3 (37%)	0.0533^b
3	20 (69%)	9 (31%)	0.0514
4	9 (82%)	2 (18%)	0.2642
5	9 (82%)	2 (18%)	0.2643
6	26 (90%)	3 (10%)	0.5108
7*	6 (33%)	12 (66%)	0.0014
8	8 (80%)	2 (20%)	0.2290
Day of week
Monday*	15 (60%)	10 (40%)	0.0295^c
Tuesday	19 (90%)	2 (10%)
Wednesday	14 (88%)	2 (12%)	0.7737
Thursday	23 (77%)	7 (23%)	0.2170
Friday	17 (85%)	3 (15%)	0.5954
Saturday	5 (50%)	5 (50%)	0.0211
Sunday	9 (65%)	5 (35%)	0.0735
Weekday vs weekend*			0.0377
Weekday	88 (79%)	24 (21%)
Weekend	14 (58%)	10 (42%)

Univariate analyses calculated using t-test for continuous variables, Chi squared or Fisher’s exact test for binary variables, and logistic regression for non-binary categorical variables
* Statistically significant at p < 0.05
^aReference: Biological mother
^bReference: Village 1
^cReference: Tuesday

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