Community concepts of malaria-related illness with and without convulsions in southern Ghana

Malaria Journal

Table 5 Self-help at home for MRI with and without convulsions

Self help at home reported¹	How reported²
	Vignette with convulsion (n = 101)		Vignette without convulsion (n = 100)
	Total	Fraction Spont.	Total	Fraction Spont.
Herbal & other local actions	96.0	0.92	99.0	0.76**
Home-prepared herbal medications for drinking	72.3	0.75	83.0	0.60
Bathing with ordinary cold water (tepid sponging)	67.3	0.34	70.0	0.34
Home-prepared herbal medications for enema	52.4	0.62	44.0	0.46*
Home-prepared herbal medications for bathing	40.6	0.73	33.0	0.30*
Other actions (scarification etc)	22.9	0.96	5.0	1.00**
Home-prepared herbal medications for other uses	8.0	0.88	8.0	0.50
Modern pharmaceuticals	52.5	0.34	92.0	0.60**
Drug/chemical shops to purchase drugs	47.6	0.31	89.0	0.57**
Other leftover drugs at home	7.7	0.26	9.0	0.33
Leftover antimalarials at home	1.0	1.00	7.0	0.86**

¹ Self-help at home analysed as groups (in bold) based on reported categories that follow.
*p ≤ 0.10 and ** p ≤ 0.05. Wilcoxon test for comparison of prominence of reported categories (2 = spontaneous, 1 = probed response, 0 = not reported).
²Column values indicate frequency of reported categories and the fraction of these reported spontaneously.

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