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Table 1 Treatment and supervision procedures of study arms

From: Adherence to 14-day radical cure for Plasmodium vivax malaria in Papua, Indonesia: a mixed-methods study

 

Supervised

Unsupervised

Control

Total PQ dose (radical cure)

7 mg/kg (max. 2 tablets/day) over 14 days

3.5 mg/kg (max. 1 tablet/day) over 14 days

PQ prescription

All patients irrespective of malaria species

Only patients with P. vivax and P. ovale (single or mixed) species received radical cure

P. falciparum patients received single dose 15 mg PQ

Treatment steps and supervision

Supervised DP for 3 days followed by 14 days of daily PQ supervised on alternate days

Supervised DP for 3 days followed by unsupervised PQ

Supervised first dose of DP followed by unsupervised DP and PQ

Follow-up visits

D1, D2, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D14, D16, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6

D1, D2, D16, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6

M6

  1. PQ, primaquine; mg, milligram; kg, kilogram; max., maximum; DP, dihydroartemisinin piperaquine; D, day; M, month