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Table 16 Self-reported behaviour: assessment of advantages and disadvantages of treatments

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

How sure are you about the advantages and disadvantages of the [most recent] treatment you used?

 

Control

schools

N = 2844

Intervention

schools

N = 3943

A. Not very sure because I don’t know the reasons behind the claims about the good and bad things that treatment makes happen

531 (18.7%)

851 (21.6%)

B. Not very sure because there was not a good reason behind the claims about the advantages of the treatment

355 (12.5%)

549 (13.9%)

C. Not very sure because I only know about the advantages of the treatment. I also need to know about the disadvantages

765 (26.9%)

992 (25.2%)

D. Very sure because there is a good reason behind the claims about the advantages and disadvantages of the treatment

652 (22.9%)

929 (23.6%)

E. I did not use any treatment

498 (17.5%)

590 (15.0%)

Missing

43 (1.5%)

32 (0.8%)

Odds ratio (C versus any other response)

1.05

(95% CI, 0.86–1.30)

P = 0.62

Adjusted difference answer C vs else

−0.9%

(95% CI, −5.3% to 2.7%)

Odds ratio (D versus any other response)

1.03

(95% CI, 0.85–1.23)

P = 0.79

Adjusted difference answer D vs else

−0.5%

(95% CI, −3.9% to 2.8%)