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

Table 7 Characteristics of the participants

		One-year follow-up		End of intervention term
		Control schools	Intervention schools	Control schools	Intervention schools
Schools (selected from the central region of Uganda)		N = 60	N = 60	N = 60	N = 60
Location	Rural	8 (13%)	6 (10%)	8 (13%)	6 (10%)
	Semi-urban	15 (25%)	14 (23%)	15 (25%)	14 (23%)
	Urban	37 (62%)	40 (67%)	37 (62%)	40 (67%)
Ownership	Public	33 (55%)	30 (50%)	33 (55%)	30 (50%)
Ownership	Private	27 (45%)	30 (50%)	27 (45%)	30 (50%)
Teachers^a		N = 74	N = 85	N = 74	N = 85
Completed tests		59 (80%)	78 (92%)	67 (91%)	85 (100%)
Education	Certificate	27 (46%)	34 (44%)	30 (45%)	39 (46%)
	Diploma	31 (53%)	35 (45%)	33 (49%)	35 (41%)
	University degree	1 (2%)	9 (12%)	3 (4%)	10 (12%)
Main subject taught	Science	32 (54%)	48 (56%)	49 (73%)	68 (80%)
Sex	Women	24 (41%)	32 (45%)	29 (43%)	34 (40%)
Children (enrolled in year-5 at the start of the term)		N = 6256	N = 6383	N = 6256	N = 6383
Completed tests^b		2844 (45%)	3943 (62%)	4430 (71%)	5753 (90%)
Completed tests per school^c	Median (25th to 75th percentile) (Range)	40 (24 to 57) (4 to 300)	49 (30 to 77) (10 to 270)	60 (40 to 95) (12 to 150)	61 (43 to 89) (18 to 176)
Sex	Girls	1558 (55%)	2164 (55%)	2457 (55%)	3154 (55%)
Age	Median (25th to 75th percentile) (Range)	12 (10 to 14) (9 to 18)	12 (10 to 14) (8 to 19)	11 (10 to 12) (8 to 20)	11 (10 to 12) (8 to 18)

^aThe number of teachers who completed the test at the end of the first term. Head teachers were initially asked to identify teacher who taught science to children in the fifth year of primary school. However, some schools had more than one year 5 class. Six intervention schools with more than one year 5 class (with a different teacher for each class) requested that nine additional teachers be included altogether
^bQuestions about the characteristics of the teachers and children were included in the test completed at the end of the school term and 1 year later
^cThe average number of year 5 children per school at the start of the term was 84 in both groups

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