A mixed methods approach to evaluating community drug distributor performance in the control of neglected tropical diseases

Table 3 Mean hours, per IPC campaign spent on NTD Programme activities by the number of delivery rounds borne by the CDD

	Number of deliveries
Activity	One [hrs] (SD)^a	Two [hrs] (SD)	Three [hrs] (SD)	P-value*
				< 0.001
				1d – 2d, 0.21
				2d – 3d, 0.02
Collecting drugs	6.42 (16.99)	6.74 (8.06)	16.87 (17.10)	1d – 3d, 0.001
				0.02
				1d – 2d, 0.19
				2d – 3d, 0.26
MDA	37.94 (37.03)	57.10 (51.87)	77.10 (73.04)	1d – 3d, 0.01
				0.09
				1d – 2d, 0.73
				2d – 3d, 0.03
Health education & mobilisation	16.03 (19.51)	21.09 (34.50)	9.05 (8.63)	1d – 3d, 0.08
				0.35
				1d – 2d, 0.23
				2d – 3d, 0.02
Registration	13.18 (17.57)	13.04 (24.87)	24.04 (20.81)	1d – 3d, 0.19
				0.93
				1d – 2d, 0.26
				2d – 3d, 0.12
Reporting	4.28 (5.07)	6.01 (4.17)	2.12 (2.68)	1d – 3d, 0.61
				0.28
				1d – 2d, 0.06
				2d – 3d, 0.26
Training	5.45 (4.07)	8.13 (7.86)	6.63 (3.27)	1d – 3d, 0.35
				0.02
				1d – 2d, 0.32
Total	83.30 (57.88)	112.09 (104.98)	112.09 (104.98)	2d – 3d, 0.16
Range^b	25.67–243.50	21.17–455.45	21.17–455.45	1d – 3d, 0.01
Number of CDDs	23	22	13

^aStandard deviations (SD) of the mean are given in the parenthesis
^bThe range in total hours for each delivery is highlighted in the bottom row of the table
*Overall P-value between the number of deliveries and then between one delivery (1d) and two deliveries (2d), two deliveries (2d) and 3 deliveries (3d) and one delivery (1d) and 3 deliveries (3d)

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