Table 2 Socio-demographic, clinical characteristics of patients with malaria in three low-endemic settings of Myanmar, 2016
Characteristics | All malaria | Malaria NIC information available | Malaria NIC information not available | p value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | (%)a | n | (%)b | n | (%)b | |||
Total | 959 | 312 | 647 | |||||
State/region | Yangon | 52 | (5.4) | 52 | (100) | 0 | (0) | |
Bago-East | 414 | (43.2) | 75 | (18.1) | 339 | (81.9) | ||
Mon | 493 | (51.4) | 185 | (37.5) | 308 | (62.5) | ||
Age (years) | 0–14 | 157 | (16.4) | 59 | (37.6) | 98 | (62.4) | 0.17 |
≥ 15 | 802 | (83.6) | 253 | (31.5) | 549 | (68.5) | ||
Sex | Male | 723 | (75.4) | 238 | (32.9) | 485 | (67.1) | 0.72 |
Female | 236 | (24.6) | 74 | (31.4) | 162 | (68.6) | ||
Pregnantc | 5 | (2.1) | na | |||||
Type of healthcare provider | Basic health staff | 745 | (77.7) | 271 | (36.4) | 474 | (63.6) | < 0.001 |
Village health volunteer | 214 | (22.3) | 41 | (19.2) | 173 | (80.8) | ||
Malaria speciesd | Plasmodium vivax | 436 | (55.0) | 171 | (39.2) | 265 | (60.8) | 0.99 |
Plasmodium falciparum | 321 | (40.5) | 126 | (39.3) | 195 | (60.7) | ||
Mixed | 35 | (4.4) | 15 | (42.9) | 20 | (57.1) | ||
Plasmodium ovale | 1 | (0.1) | – | |||||
Severity | Uncomplicated | 927 | (96.7) | na | na | |||
Complicated | 32 | (3.3) | na | na | ||||