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Table 11 Intended behaviours at 1-year follow-up

From: Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects, 1-year follow-up: a cluster-randomised trial

Think about an illness that you might get. Imagine someone claiming (saying) that a particular treatment might help you get better.

 

How likely are you to find out what the claim was based on (e.g., by asking the person making the claim)?

How likely are you to find out if the claim was based on a research study comparing the treatment with no treatment (a fair comparison)?

How likely are you to say ‘yes’ if you are asked to participate in a research study comparing two treatments for your illness (a fair comparison)?

 

Control schools

N = 2844

Intervention schools

N = 3943

Control schools

N = 2844

Intervention schools

N = 3943

Control schools

N = 2844

Intervention schools

N = 3943

Missing

69 (2.4%)

67 (1.7%)

87 (3.1%)

70 (1.8%)

36 (1.3%)

44 (1.1%)

Very unlikely

217 (7.6%)

376 (9.5%)

301 (10.6%)

467 (11.8%)

245 (8.6%)

277 (7.0%)

Unlikely

289 (10.2%)

376 (9.5%)

424 (14.9%)

569 (14.4%)

329 (11.6%)

429 (10.9%)

Likely

975 (34.3%)

1510 (38.3%)

747 (26.3%)

997 (25.3%)

1045 (36.7%)

1577 (40.0%)

Very likely

678 (23.8%)

1082 (27.4%)

705 (24.8%)

1164 (29.5%)

719 (25.3%)

1155 (29.3%)

I don’t know

616 (21.7%)

532 (13.5%)

580 (20.4%)

676 (17.1%)

470 (16.5%)

461 (11.7%)

Likely or very likelya

1653 (58.1%)

2592 (65.7%)

1452 (51.1%)

2161 (54.8%)

1764 (62.0%)

2732 (69.3%)

Odds ratio (95% CI)b

1.41

(1.18–1.69)

P = 0.00020

1.11

(0.93–1.33)

P = 0.269

1.41

(1.10–1.79)

P = 0.00629

Adjusted differenceb

8.1%

(3.7–12.6%)

2.6%

(−1.9% to 7.2%)

7.7%

(2.0–13.5%)

End of intervention termc

Likely or very likely

2440 (55.1%)

3731 (64.9%)

1967 (44.4%)

3114 (54.1%)

2163 (48.8%)

3201 (55.6%)

Odds ratio

1.56

(95% CI, 1.29 to 1.88)

1.54

(95% CI, 1.29 to 1.84)

1.37

(95% CI, 1.16 to 1.62)

Adjusted difference

10.6%

(95% CI, 6.2% to 14.7%)

10.8%

(95% CI, 6.3% to 15.1%)

7.8%

(95% CI, 3.7% to 11.9%)

  1. a Missing values and don’t know are pooled with unlikely and very unlikely
  2. bThe difference is an adjusted difference, based on mixed models with a random effects term for the clusters and the stratification variables modelled as fixed effects, using logistic regression. The odds ratios from the logistic regressions have been converted to differences using the intervention schools as the reference and the inverse of the odds ratios shown here
  3. cResults based on responses at the end of the term when the intervention was delivered