Experience and confidence in health technologies: evidence from malaria testing and treatment in Western Kenya

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Association between confidence in testing and treatment behavior

	Tested with RDT		Adhered to negative RDT result
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Coefficient on:
Believed Neg. RDT very likely correct prior to malaria illnesss	1.45 (0.29)	1.31 (0.28)	2.21** (0.54)	1.78* (0.45)
Mean of outcome in ref. group	0.67	0.67	0.48	0.48
Number of observations	863	863	295	295

Beliefs are those of the household respondent if the individual was under the age of 18. Results are from logistic regression models and coefficients are expressed in terms of odds ratios. Columns 1 and 3 are simple bi-variate regressions, while columns 2 and 4 include the following controls: age and gender of the individual, education level (of the respondent if the individual was under 18), whether the individual slept under a net the previous night, the main source of household drinking water, whether the household owns more than one acre of land and village fixed effects. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01

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