Plan for Data Analysis and Interpretation Include Dummy Tables

18 Home Safety Practices for Prevention of Poisoning in Young Children failed to open Safety Device 1 on their second try. For the device to be considered efficacious, 85 of children tested should fail to open the Safety Device within the 5 minutes allocated on their first try and 80 of children should fail on their second try after the investigator demonstrates how to open the lock. We did not continue our study on Safety Device 1 after we found out that Safety Device 1 was no longer available for purchase in this country. Hence only 66 instead of the planned 100 children were tested on Safety Device 1 Table 6. The mean age of the participating children was 39.24 months SD 9.42. The minimum age was 18 months and the maximum 68 months. A total of 61 45.9 children were male and 72 54.1 were female. Their accompanying caregiver was mainly mothers 75.9, followed by fathers 14.3, grandmothers 6.8, grandfathers 1.5 and others 1.5. The accompanying caregivers’ mean age was 34.77 years SD ± 9.09 years. The accompanying caregivers’ minimum age was 21 years old and the maximum 62 years old. Most of the caregivers 69.9 of them had up to secondary level education. Out of the 4 children who could open safety Device 1 on their first try, 3 were males. On their second try eleven out of 18 children who successfully opened Safety Device 1 were males. The same trend was seen with Safety Device 2 whereby 3 out of 4 children who were successful on their first try were males and 8 out of 11 children successful on their second try were males.

4.2 Socio-demographic Data

For the first audit, 146 households were evaluated from the Kinta District and 150 from the Manjung District. 8 6.1 households dropped out in the Kinta District for the second audit and 12 8.0 from Manjung. For the third audit another 8 households dropped out in Kinta District and another two 1.4 households dropped out from Manjung Table 7. Socio-demographic data comparing both the districts at baseline is shown in Table 8. There was no significant difference in terms of relationships of the caregivers to the child, age, ethnicity and education level of the caregivers. To say that the household assessed has good knowledge on safe medication chemicals storage disposal we put together a score whereby one correct answer from each of the following aspect i.e. how to safely store medication, how to safely store household chemicals, how to safely dispose medication and all three correct answers on identifying possible household substances that can cause poisoning in children were considered to have good knowledge. Any household not fulfilling the above criteria was considered to not have good knowledge. Knowledge level was only assessed during the pre-intervention visit.