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

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Association between adherence to test result and confidence in testing

	Outcome: Believed Negative RDT very likely correct after illness
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Coefficient on:
Adhered to RDT	2.17** (0.31)	2.20**(0.31)
Adhered to Positive RDT			0.89 (0.56)	1.07 (0.66)
Adhered to Negative RDT					2.07** (0.43)	2.09**(0.43)
Believed Neg. RDT very likely correct before illness	1.30 (0.22)	1.19 (0.20)	1.44 (0.33)	1.31 (0.31)	1.26 (0.39)	1.16 (0.40)
Mean of outcome in ref. group	0.48	0.48	0.71	0.71	0.46	0.4
Number of observations	619	619	324	324	295	295

Beliefs are those of the household head if the individual was under the age of 18. Results are from logistic regression models and coefficients are expressed in terms of odds ratios. Columns1,3,5 are regressions that control only for beliefs before the illness while columns 2, 4, and 6 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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