Effectiveness of community adolescent treatment supporters (CATS) interventions in improving linkage and retention in care, adherence to ART and psychosocial well-being: a randomised trial among adolescents living with HIV in rural Zimbabwe

Table 2 Linkage and Retention in care

	Intervention				Test for significance	Control				Test for significance
	Baseline		End line		P-value	Baseline		Endline		P-value
	Mean score(95%CI)	Std Dev	Mean score(95%CI)	Std Dev	P-value	Mean score(95%CI)	Std Dev	Mean score(95%CI)	Std Dev	P-value
Linkages	2.38 (2.21;2.54)	0.0824	3.38 (3.20;3.56)	0.0897	< 0.001	2.34 (2.23;2.45)	0.0558	2.69 (2.46;2.91)	0.1136	< 0.001
Retention	3.66 (3.54;3.79)	0.0633	3.74 (3.62;3.86)	0.0620	< 0.001	3.86 (3.79;3.92)	0.0326	3.31 (3.13;3.50)	0.0941	< 0.001
N	47		47			40		28

Linkage and Retention in care, is measured using mean score (including 95% CI) given for both the intervention and control arm, and both at baseline and endline. N = 47 for the intervention arm at baseline, N = 40 for the control arm at baseline, N = 47 for the intervention arm at end line, and N = 28 for the control arm at endline. Difference between baseline and endline is statistically significant if p < 0.05. The bold text under p-value column show statistical significance

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