Malaria rapid diagnostic tests in community pharmacies in Rwanda: availability, knowledge of community pharmacists, advantages, and disadvantages of licensing their use

Table 5 Association between participants’ characteristics and availability of m-RDTs

Variables	Availability of m-RDTs				X²	p-value
Variables	No		Yes		X²	p-value
Sex	n	%	n	%
Male	112	76.7	36	66.7	2.07	0.15
Female	34	23.3	18	33.3
Age
25–35 years	129	88.4	52	96.3	3.02	0.21
36–45 years	15	10.3	2	3.7
46 and above	2	1.45	0	0
Education
Bachelor’s degree	131	89.7	50	92.6	0.38	0.53
Master’s degree	15	10.3	4	7.4
Marital status
Single	81	55.5	35	64.8	1.41	0.23
Married	65	44.5	19	35.2
University of graduation
University of Rwanda	121	82.9	43	79.6	9.08	0.01*
Mount Kenya University	21	14.4	4	7.4
Foreign university	4	2.7	7	13
Graduation year
< 2005	2	1.4	0	0	5.95	0.11
2005–2010	6	4.1	0	0
2011–2015	36	24.7	8	14.8
2016–2021	102	69.9	46	85.2
Experience in community pharmacy
1–5 years	99	67.8	43	79.6	2.87	0.23
6–10 years	40	27.4	10	18.5
11–15 years	7	4.8	1	1.9
Location of pharmacy
Kigali city	80	54.8	32	59.3	9.13	0.04*
Southern Province	20	13.7	4	7.4
Northern Province	22	15.1	2	3.7
Western Province	11	7.5	7	13
Eastern Province	13	8.9	9	16.7
Ownership of pharmacy
Owner	31	21.2	11	20.4	0.02	0.89
Employee	115	78.8	43	79.6
Availability of a Nurse in the pharmacy
No	7	4.8	11	20.4	11.68	< 0.001***
Yes	139	95.2	43	79.6
Requested to sell m-RDTs
No	68	46.6	14	25.9	6.95	0.008**
Yes	78	53.4	40	74.1
Familiarity using m-RDTs					17.24	0.002**
Not at all familiar	34	23.3	3	5.6
Slightly familiar	27	18.5	3	5.6
Somewhat familiar	16	11	11	20.4
Moderately familiar	42	28.8	21	38.9
Extremely familiar	27	18.5	16	29.6
Trained about the use of m-RDTs					5.19	0.42
No	99	67.8	34	63
Yes	47	32.2	20	37

\({x}^{2}\): Pearson Chi-square value *: Statistical significance at p < 0.05; **: Statistical significance level at p < 0.01, ***: statistical significance at p < 0.001

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