Construction site workers’ malaria knowledge and treatment-seeking pattern in a highly endemic urban area of India

Table 4 Construction workers’ preferred source and type of treatment according their socio-demographic profile and self stated history of malaria within 1 year in Mangaluru, India, June–September 2012 (n = 119)

Study variable	Preferred treatment source					Preferred treatment type
	Public sector		Private sector		p	Allopathic		Others		p
	n	%	n	%	p	n	%	n	%	p
Age (years)
<25	42	72.4	16	27.6	0.537	50	86.2	8	13.8	0.282
≥25	41	67.2	20	32.8		48	78.7	13	21.3
Gender
Female	5	27.8	13	72.2	<0.001^a	10	55.6	8	44.4	0.004^{a, b}
Male	78	77.2	23	22.8		88	87.1	13	12.9
Type of worker
Local	1	33.3	2	66.7	0.217^b	3	100.0	0	0.0	1.00^b
Migrant	82	70.7	34	29.3		95	81.9	21	18.1
Marital status
Unmarried	38	76.0	12	24.0	0.206	44	88.0	6	12.0	0.167
Married	45	65.2	24	34.8		54	78.3	15	21.7
Literacy status
Illiterate	28	57.1	21	42.9	0.012^a	35	71.4	14	28.6	0.009^a
Literate	55	78.6	15	21.4		63	90.0	7	10.0
Caste category^c
SC/ST	45	69.2	20	30.8	0.893	51	78.5	14	21.5	0.222
General/OBC	38	70.4	16	29.6		47	87.0	7	13.0
History of malaria within 1 year
Yes	40	72.7	15	27.3	0.512	53	96.4	2	3.6	<0.001^a
No	43	67.2	21	32.8		45	70.3	19	29.7

^aSignificant (p < 0.05)
^bFisher’s Exact Test
^c SC scheduled caste, ST scheduled tribe, OBC other backward caste; df = 1 for all variables

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