Quality of malaria services offered in public health facilities in three provinces of Mozambique: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Quality of counseling in patients prescribed an ACT as assessed during exit interviews in health facility surveys in Maputo, Zambezia, and Cabo Delgado Provinces, Mozambique, 2018

	Maputo		Zambezia		Cabo Delgado
		95% CI	0	95% CI	90	95% CI
Given first dose at health facility	7	2–21	8	4–16	7	3–14
Given instructions on how to take ACT	100	100–100	92	87–96	79	68–87
Able to correctly recite dosing schedule^a	62	28–87	58	45–70	58	38–76
Received instructions to:
Take AL with food or milk	18	3–57	11	6–19	40	22–61
Take AL on empty stomach	9	1–43	0	0.09–2.30	0	0.02–0.84
Complete all doses	72	34–93	42	31–55	38	20–60
Return if worse	66	30–90	38	29–48	40	22–61
Return if no improvement	18	5–49	39	29–50	38	21–60

ACT, artemisinin-based combination therapy; AL, artemether–lumefantrine; CI, confidence interval
^aCorrect number of tablets per dose, doses per day, and total duration of treatment. Calculated only for subset of patients prescribed the correct dose

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