Treatment-seeking for febrile illness in north-east India: an epidemiological study in the malaria endemic zone

Chaturvedi, Himanshu K; Mahanta, Jagadish; Pandey, Arvind

doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-301

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Health care services utilization for seeking treatment (P) and its association with residential areas of living and socio-demographic characteristics of household head and patients.

From: Treatment-seeking for febrile illness in north-east India: an epidemiological study in the malaria endemic zone

Variables	N	Health Care Services
		Initial Choice				Final Choice
		Traditional*	Govt. Service ^$	Private Service ^#	Self-medication ^@	Govt. Service ^$	Private Service ^#
		P (%)	P (%)	P (%)	P (%)	P (%)	P (%)
Location			Residential	Area
Golaghat	995	35.3	36.3	9.9	18.5a	78.5	21.5
Tinsukia	994	43.2	22.2	17.5	17.1a	52.5	47.5
χ²--test		62.6f				148.5f
Area of living
Town	239	10.5	34.7a	29.3	25.5a	49.0	51.0
Forest	458	33.8	31.7a	8.7a	25.8a	80.6a	19.4a
Flood	437	43.7	31.8a	7.1a	17.4b	78.9a	21.1a
Tea garden	522	60.0	14.2	17.8	8.0	43.1	56.9
Others	333	28.8	42.3	11.7	17.1b	74.2	25.8
χ²--test		311.1f				236.9f
Education of head		Information of Household Head
Illiterate	935	41.3ab	26.1	13.7a	18.9ab	66.5a	33.5a
Primary	376	43.9a	31.1a	9.8	15.2c	66.2ab	33.8ab
Middle	480	38.5b	29.8a	15.2ab	16.5ac	64.6ab	35.4ab
Secondary+	198	22.2	39.4	17.7b	20.7b	61.6b	38.4b
χ²--test		225.2f				2.02d
Occupation
Service	437	44.4a	21.1	24.5	10.1	34.3	65.7
Self-employed	250	21.6	46.8	15.6a	16.0a	68.0a	32.0a
Farmer	774	42.5a	27.6a	5.6b	24.3b	84.9	15.1
Housewife	422	38.2b	29.1a	18.0a	14.7a	58.8	41.2
Others	106	39.6ab	34.0a	7.5b	18.9ab	73.6a	26.4a
χ²--test		182.4f				328.9f
Ethnic group
Assamese (Non-tribe)	445	36.0a	33.7a	10.1	20.2a	70.1a	29.9a
Assam tribes	353	40.2a	33.4a	6.8a	19.5a	85.6b	14.4b
Tea tribes of Assam	487	57.1	14.8b	20.3b	7.8	36.3	63.7
Nepali	212	50.5	17.9b	4.7a	26.9	83.0b	17.0b
Others	492	18.9	41.5	19.3b	20.3a	68.3a	31.7a
χ²--test		270.7f				280.7f
Household Income			(INR)
≤ 2000	1113	45.2	26.7a	13.3a	14.8	65.0	35.0
2001--4000	628	31.8a	33.6b	12.9a	21.7a	71.0	29.0
4001 +	248	31.0a	29.8ab	17.7	21.4a	54.0	46.0
χ²--test		45.6f				23.05f
Gender of Patients		Patients	Information
Male	1171	40.1a	29.5a	12.6a	17.8a	66.7a	33.3a
Female	818	37.9a	29.0a	15.4a	17.7a	63.8a	36.2a
χ²--test		3.51d				1.76d
Age of patients
≤ 10(in Years)	713	39.0	29.9a	16.5	14.6	61.7	38.3
11 -- 30	658	42.7	29.6a	11.9a	18.5a	66.6a	33.4a
31+	618	35.8	31.1a	12.5a	20.7a	68.8a	31.2a
χ²--test		19.8f				7.79e
Distance of Health Center
< 5 Km.	1391	38.0a	28.5a	16.5	17.0a	59.2	40.8
≥ 5 Km.	598	42.0a	31.1a	7.4	19.6a	80.3	19.7
χ²--test		29.4f				82.4f

N: Number of respondents; *Traditional healer/Vaidya; $ PHC/CHC/Sub Center/District Hospital; # Private Dispensary/Hospital; @ Medicines without consulting a doctor; CI: 95% Confidence Interval; Values marked by similar letter (a, b, or c; not in superscript) shows no significant difference; d: P > 0.05; e: P < 0.05; f: P < 0.01

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