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Table 2 Severity and duration of diarrhea among study children across the four intervention arms during the baseline survey, Jan-Mar 2015

From: The effectiveness bundling of zinc with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for improving adherence to acute watery diarrhea treatment in Ethiopia: cluster randomised controlled trial

Variables

Arms

P value

Central bundling (n = 167)

HC level bundling (n = 164)

Status quo (n = 169)

Bundling without message (n = 173)

Median duration of illness during the baseline study (days)

3

3

2

2

0.069

Mean (±SD) number of episodes in the preceding day of survey

5.3 (±1.4)

6.2 (±2.5)

6.0 (±2.5)

5.5 (±2.0)

<0.001*

Extent of dehydration (%)

 No dehydration

74.9

65.2

76.9

82.1

0.004*

 Some dehydration

25.1

34.8

23.1

17.9

% who sought for treatment elsewhere before coming to HC

4.8

9.1

4.7

8.1

0.247

% who received antibiotic or antiparasitic drugs at the HC

35.9

39.0

44.4

39.3

0.461

  1. * Statistically significant difference at p value of 0.05