Table 3 Health workers’ (HW) attitudes towards RDTs and prescriptions of anti-malarial drugs
Questions addressed to health workers | Clinical | Non clinical | All HW |
|---|---|---|---|
N | N | N | |
Do you have confidence in RDT results? | |||
Yes | 8 | 5 | 13 |
No | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Do you sometimes prescribe anti-malarial drugs to patients with negative results? | |||
Yes | 7 | 5 | 12 |
No | 4 | 2 | 6 |
Do patients sometimes demand anti-malarial drugs when results are negative? | |||
Yes | 10 | 3 | 13 |
No | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Do patients trust RDT results? | |||
Yes | 7 | 4 | 11 |
No | 4 | 3 | 7 |