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Table 4 Socio-demographic details of the key informants involved in one-to-one interviews and migrants involved in focus group discussions (FGDs) in four regional artemisinin-resistance initiative (RAI) townships of Myanmar (Dec 2017–Jan 2018)

From: Low uptake of malaria testing within 24 h of fever despite appropriate health-seeking among migrants in Myanmar: a mixed-methods study

 

FGD participants

Key informants

N (%)

N (%)

Total

121 (100)

17 (100)

Gender

 Male

77 (64)

14 (82)

 Female

44 (36)

3 (18)

Age group (years)

 15–24

26 (21)

1 (6)

 25–44

67 (55)

9 (53)

 45–64

27 (22)

6 (35)

 65 years and above

1 (1)

1 (6)

Years of service (years)

 0–5

–

8 (47)

 6–10

–

2 (12)

 More than 10 years

–

5 (29)

 Missing

–

2 (12)

  1. FGD participants were bamboo cutters (n = 15), bridge construction workers (n = 15), charcoal makers (n = 11), fishermen (n = 13), gold miners (n = 16), oil diggers (n = 19), stone mine workers (n = 12), forest worker (n = 3), teak plantation workers (n = 6), others (n = 11)
  2. Key informants were health assistant (n = 2), malaria assistant (n = 2), malaria supervisor (n = 3), public health supervisor (n = 2), village health volunteers (n = 8); the FGDs (n = 17) and one-to-one interviews (n = 17) were done in four townships namely Homalin, Kalay, Yay Tar Shay, Taungoo in two regions Bago and Sagaing
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Malaria Journal

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