Table 2 Treatment-seeking behaviour for febrile episoded in pre-school children from Equatorial Guinea in 2004 (N = 256)
Total | Rural | Urban | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristics | Frequency* | se | Frequency* | se | Frequency* | se | P |
Looked for help in Health facility | |||||||
Hospital, health centre, private clinic | 30,5 | 4,1 | 36,5 | 6,2 | 24,7 | 5,3 | 0,21 |
Looked for help in other places | |||||||
Pharmacy, market, witch doctor, family and others | 26,7 | 4,5 | 17 | 3,8 | 36,2 | 7,3 | 0,02 |
Mean time to seeking first treatment after fever onset | |||||||
Same day | 22,8 | 3,9 | 20 | 3,7 | 25,6 | 6,8 | |
Next day | 15,9 | 3 | 14,8 | 4,3 | 16,9 | 4,2 | |
After two or more days | 15,4 | 2,6 | 20 | 3,1 | 11 | 4,3 | 0,15 |
Didn't seek treatment | 45,3 | 4,6 | 45,2 | 4,6 | 46,4 | 6 | |
Treated with antimalaric drugs | 41,8 | 3,6 | 44,2 | 4,3 | 39,5 | 5,6 | 0,60 |
Other kind of treatment | 82,5 | 2,3 | 86,7 | 3 | 78,5 | 5,3 | 0,58 |