3. RESULTS
3.1 Descriptive and analytic
results
The frequency of inspection visits carried out by government
district drug inspectors in both the intervention and comparison
districts of the study are presented in table 2. Following the
introduction of peer supervision, the mean (SD) monthly visits for
district drug inspectors in the intervention district was 0.98(0.34)
while in the comparison district was 0.78(0.31). The mean (SD) visits
for peer supervisors in the intervention district was 1.2(0.87).
The aggregated monthly district percentages
of appropriately treated children are presented in table 3 and
Fig.2. There was a general increase in the
overall percentage of children treated appropriately for pneumonia
symptoms (using amoxicillin tablets) and non-bloody diarrhoea (using a
combination of zinc and oral rehydration salts) in both districts months
preceding introduction of peer supervision.
Following the introduction of peer supervision, there were
monthly improvements in the overall appropriate treatment of children
with pneumonia symptoms in the intervention district while there was a
decline in the comparison
district.
There was no difference in appropriate treatment of children with
uncomplicated malaria between the two districts. Noticeably, more
children were appropriately treated for non-bloody diarrhoea than
malaria and pneumonia symptoms in both districts over the study period.