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Table 5 Cost calculation and cost-benefit ratio

From: Effectiveness of a comprehensive integrated module using interactive lectures and workshops in understanding and knowledge retention about infant feeding practice in fifth year medical students: a quasi-experimental study

Control module

Unit cost (IDR)

Intervention module

Unit cost (IDR)

Payment for teachers (4 sessions)

3,200,000

Payment for teachers (6 sessions)

4,800,000

Hands-on workshop using case practice papers

2 facilitators

1,600,000

Hands-on workshop using actual cases shown via audiovisual media and role-play session

5,800,000

OSCE (examiners, rooms materials)

8,000,000

OSCE (examiners, rooms materials)

8,000,000

Proportion of students who failed in OSCE

35.0 %

Proportion of students who failed in OSCE

5.80 %

Cost incurred for remedial OSCE, weighted to the proportion of remedial taker

2,666,667

Cost incurred for remedial OSCE, weighted to the proportion of remedial taker

666,667

Cost Benefit Ratioa

2.90

  

Cost effectiveness ratio 130,137/%success

 
  1. aCBR = added cost of intervention/benefit of intervention