Table 3 Matrix of factors reported by papers to attract care seekers to different provider types: Belief in provider and ability to choose drugs
| Provider type |
Community health workers
(n = 3) |
Drug shop/pharmacy
(n = 7) |
Traditional healer
(n = 27) |
Private health centre/facility
(n = 10) |
Public health centre/facility
(n = 11) |
Hospital
(n = 8) |
Provider type not specified
(n = 8) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attracting factor | |||||||
| Belief the provider and/or their treatments can cure the illness (n = 51) |
'Their drugs work well' Nigeria & Ghana & Uganda & Kenya[55], Nigeria [57, 56] | Nigeria[19, 27], Uganda[17, 18], Ghana[29] | Tanzania [34, 67, 44, 68, 69]Uganda[70], Malawi[59, 24] Nigeria [20, 71, 19, 26]Kenya[35], Ghana[72], Uganda[32], Burkina Faso[61], Gabon[73], |
Ghana [82, 21] Tanzania[83, 84],Uganda[11, 17]Nigeria[85, 86]Kenya[35, 63], | Ethiopia [87]Zambia[60], Nigeria [26, 66, 86], Burkina Faso[61], Gabon[73], Malawi[59], Tanzania [88], Uganda [89] | Gambia [90], Nigeria[85, 20, 86]Tanzania [44, 76]Burkina Faso[61], Ghana [21] |
Tanzania [68, 67, 91], Uganda[17, 45] Burkina Faso [92], Ghana [21] Ethiopia [52] |
| 'Effective for convulsions associated to witchcraft' Zambia[60], | 'Treatment is comprehensive' Kenya[14] | ||||||
| 'Effective for convulsions' Nigeria [20, 74], Tanzania [75, 76]Ethiopia[77] | |||||||
|
'Effective for illnesses with natural or spiritual cause' Zambia[78], Tanzania [79, 80]Nigeria[74], Ghana [21] | |||||||
| 'Effective for illness unusual in presentation' Nigeria [81], | |||||||
| Provider allows the patient to choose what they want (n = 2) | 'Can buy any quantity of drugs you want' Nigeria[26] | ||||||
| 'Can make a choice on the kind of drug' Nigeria [58] |
