Expanding Access to Malaria Diagnosis through Retail Shops in Western Kenya: What Do Shop Workers Think?

Table 1

Focus group participant data from self-administered questionnaire.

	Peri-urban			Rural
	FGD 1	FGD 2		FGD 3	FGD 4	FGD 5	FGD 6		Total	% of total
Total participants	5	5		8	10	16	17		61	100
Women	4	2		5	6	7	12		36	59
Men	1	3		3	4	9	5		25	41
Age
Under 20	1	0		0	0	1	0		2	3
21–30	1	4		1	4	2	8		20	33
31–40	0	1		4	3	7	5		20	33
41–50	1	0		1	1	2	2		7	11
Over 50	1	0		1	1	1	0		4	7
Unreported	1	0		1	1	3	2		8	13
Training
Pharmacist	0	1		1	2	3	4		11	18
Pharmacy tech	1	1		0	1	2	0		5	8
Pharmacy asst	1	1		2	0	4	3		11	18
Medical doctor	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	0
Nurse/midwife	1	0		2	3	5	6		17	28
Clinical officer	0	0		0	0	1	1		2	3
Untrained	1	0		0	0	0	0		1	2
Unreported	1	2		3	4	1	3		14	23
Education
Completed primary	0	0		0	0	0	1		1	2
Some secondary	0	0		0	1	1	2		4	7
Completed secondary	4	0		6	3	4	8		25	41
Above secondary	0	3		1	4	11	5		24	39
Unreported	1	2		1	2	0	1		7	11