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Table 3 Malaria prevention, illness in past two weeks, and IPTi coverage and perceptions from household survey in Phase 2

From: Evaluation of health system readiness and coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) in Kambia district to inform national scale-up in Sierra Leone

 

n

% (weighted)

95% confidence interval

Among children (N = 459)

Slept under mosquito net previous night

408

88.5%

84.5—92.6

Ill with fever in previous 2 weeks

103

22.7%

17.0—28.4

Blood taken from finger or heel

66

65.3%

52.5—78.2

Diagnosed with malaria

   

 Yes

55

50.5%

39.4—61.6

 No

45

47.6%

36.3—58.9

 Don't Know

3

1.9%

0—4.7

 Sought advice for illness of child

81

79.3%

69.7—88.9

Among those that sought advice, child hospitalized for this illness

13

17.2%

6.4—28.0

Took medication for illness

77

95.3%

90.6—100

Received IPTi-1a

299

67.4%

58.3 – 75.3

Reasons for not receiving IPTi among those with no ITPi (n = 114)

 Did not know it was required

42

34.7

(21.9, 50.2)

 Child not offered medication by provider

15

14.4

(8.2, 24.1)

Has not visited a facility for immunization since birth

11

10.5

(4.8, 21.6)

Time/place of immunization not convenient

8

6.2

(3.2, 11.8)

Feared side effects

7

5.9

(2.6, 12.7)

Had to pay

7

5.0

(1.8, 13.3)

Medication was not at the facility

6

5.5

(2.1, 13.8)

Distance/Lack of or cost of transport

4

3.7

(1.1, 12.0)

Did not know where to get it

3

2.9

(0.9, 9.0)

Cultural/religious reasons

2

2.2

(0.1, 9.3)

Needed to work

2

1.7

(0.4, 7.5)

Medication affects other vaccinations

1

0.6

(0.1, 4.7)

Among caregivers (N = 449)

 Heard about a new way to prevent infants from getting malaria

296

67.4%

59.7—75.1

 Heard about a new malaria tablet (among those who heard about a new way to prevent malaria among infants)

289

97.9%

96.3—99.6

 Perceived the new malaria tablet as very safe

279

96.1%

93.6—98.6

  1. aAccording to card and mother’s recall; 40 children who only received IPTi-2 and/or IPTi-3 according to their vaccination card were not counted as receiving IPTi-1
  2. bThe total does not equal 100% because it was a multiple choice question