Socio-cultural factors explaining timely and appropriate use of health facilities for degedege in south-eastern Tanzania

Table 4 Demographic and socio-cultural features of children with degedege (n = 135)

	HF Use ¹⁾ 71.1%		HF AM ²⁾ 66.7%		AM not HF ³⁾ 10.4%
	Estimate	P-Value	Estimate	P-Value	Estimate	P-Value
Demographics
Malaria*	1.14	0.04	1.18	0.03
Homa**			1.44	0.03
HF availability					1.24	0.10
Age			0.43	0.06
Categories of distress
No interest to play	1.16	0.12	2.52	0.00
Not happy	1.55	0.10
Sleeps	-1.37	0.02	-1.05	0.06
No strength	0.52	0.15
Hot abdomen	0.79	0.02	0.56	0.05
Periodic fevers					-2.63	0.03
Cough	1.50	0.01			1.56	0.06
Difficult breathing	0.87	0.04	1.55	0.00
Diarrhoea			0.55	0.14	1.50	0.02
Vomiting	-0.55	0.05			0.72	0.04
Shivering					0.78	0.09
Twitching					1.44	0.00
Body becomes stiff			0.42	0.09
Easily startled					-5.97	0.00
Perceived causes
Impure water			0.82	0.13
Starchy food	-2.41	0.05
Stage of child growth	1.05	0.09	0.81	0.07
Constitution/blood weakness	3.03	0.01	2.95	0.00
Sanitation/dirty environment	1.54	0.00
Personal hygiene/not keeping clean					4.19	0.01
Cold weather					1.39	0.05
Spirits	-1.72	0.03
Failure to abstain from sex (parent)	-2.84	0.03	-1.13	0.17
Bird/insect called degedege			-0.60	0.00
Other mention					-0.55	0.08

Note: Model fitness based on the likelihood ratio (all models with p < 0.0001)
¹⁾ Model outcome: health facility immediate use (HF use) (same day or next day)
²⁾ Model outcome: health facility and antimalarial immediate use (HF AM) (same day or next day)
³⁾ Model outcome: antimalarial immediate use (AM not HF) (same day or next day) not from the health facility
*Illness identified with malaria in illness narratives even though identified primarily with degedege
** Illness identified with homa in illness narratives even though identified primarily with degedege

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