Health education for microcredit clients in Peru: a randomized controlled trial

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Table 3 Caregiver health knowledge at follow-up, by study arm

	Control	Treatment	β-coefficient (95% CI)	n	p-value ^a
Caregiver Health Knowledge: Percent of clients able to report at least one item in each category
Diarrhea danger signs	85.3	90.0	0.12 (0.07, 0.18)	1447	< 0.01
Dietary components for child w/diarrhea	74.3	82.7	0.11 (0.04, 0.17)	1383	< 0.01
Elements of changes in care for child w/diarrhea	89.6	93.3	0.10 (0.03, 0.18)	1472	0.06
Cough danger signs	96.8	96.3	0.05 (-0.01, 0.10)	1467	0.64
Other danger signs	76.2	82.7	0.09 (0.00, 0.17)	1312	0.02
Knowledge of doctor's office activities	92.9	96.6	0.18 (0.05, 0.31)	1435	< 0.01
Knowledge of important activities after doctor's appointment	97.2	98.4	0.04 (-0.02, 0.11)	1477	0.07

^a Multivariate analyses clustered at the group level and controlling for client gender, age, and education, household assets, and loan officer.

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