From: Malaria treatment-seeking behaviour and recovery from malaria in a highland area of Kenya
Medical facility | Shop | Traditional healer/herbal medicine | No treatment | |||||
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Therapy | N | % Recoveredd | N | % Recovered | N | % Recovered | N | % Recovered |
Adults (N = 100) | ||||||||
Anti-malariala | 51 | 86.3 | 5 | 80.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No anti-malarialb | 0 | 0 | 12 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 50.0 |
Not knownc | 15 | 80.0 | 2 | 50.0 | 9 | 77.8 | 2 | 0 |
All | 66 | 84.9 | 19 | 36.8 | 9 | 77.8 | 6 | 33.3 |
Children (N = 66) | ||||||||
Anti-malariala | 32 | 81.3 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No anti-malarialb | 0 | 0 | 18 | 38.9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Not knownc | 12 | 75.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All | 44 | 79.6 | 20 | 40.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |