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Table 1 Participants' demographic characteristics

From: Cognition, behaviour and academic skills after cognitive rehabilitation in Ugandan children surviving severe malaria: a randomised trial

Domain

Control group

N=33

CCRT group

N=28

P

Gender, male n (%)

19 (52.78)

17 (57.78)

0.80

Age (years)

7.39 (1.84)

7.08 (1.52)

0.49

School grade

2.64 (1.78)

2.14 (1.21)

0.22

Weight (kgs)

21.51 (4.99)

21.29 (5.60)

0.87

Height (cm)

119.88 (15.58)

118.50 (13.71)

0.76

Weight for age z score

-0.98 (1.12)

-0.92 (1.22)

0.86

Home environment score

24.14 (6.33)

22.65 (6.22)

0.36

Interval between admission and post-testing (days)

199.30 (19.50)

210.96 (38.04)

0.13

Had cerebral malaria n (%)

3 (9.1)

5 (17.9)

0.45

Had malaria with seizures n (%)

19 (57.6)

15 (53.6)

0.75

Had malaria with impaired consciousness n (%)

11 (33.3)

8 (28.6)

0.69

  1. cm = centimetres, kgs = kilograms, N = Number. All values are Mean (SD) unless otherwise stated.
  2. Comparisons made using t-tests and chi-square where appropriate