School-based participatory health education for malaria control in Ghana: engaging children as health messengers

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Characteristics of school children.

Characteristic	Intervention school (n = 105)	Control schools (n = 81)	p-value^a
Age (yrs), median (range)	13 (8--20)	12 (8-21)	0.132^b
Sex, male/female	59/46	44/37	0.799
Grade: n (%)			0.598
3^rd	35 (33.3)	31 (38.3)
4^th	37 (35.2)	23 (28.4)
5^th	33 (31.4)	27 (33.3)

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