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Table 6 Help-seeking from outside the home for MRI with and without convulsions

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

Outside help seeking reported1

How reported2

 

Vignette with convulsion (n = 101)

Vignette without convulsion (n = 100)

 

Total

Fraction Spont.

Total

Fraction Spont.

Clinic & hospital

99.0

0.96

100.0

1.00

Government/community clinic

95.1

0.96

99.0

0.97

Government hospital

95.0

0.96

98.0

1.00

Local healers & religious leaders

84.2

0.40

66.0

0.26**

Local healers

69.4

0.46

57.0

0.26**

Religious leaders (pastors/Imams)

44.3

0.11

35.0

0.06

Other source of modern pharmaceuticals

13.8

0.43

19.0

0.21

Health worker in the community for advice

12.8

0.38

17.0

0.12

Drug/chemical shops for advice

3.0

0.33

8.0

0.25

  1. 1 Outside help-seeking analysed as groups (in bold) based on reported categories that follow.
  2. *p ≤ 0.10 and ** p ≤ 0.05. Wilcoxon test for comparison of prominence of reported categories (2 = spontaneous, 1 = probed response, 0 = not reported).
  3. 2Column values indicate frequency of reported categories and the fraction of these reported spontaneously.