Determinants of prompt and adequate care among presumed malaria cases in a community in eastern Rwanda: a cross sectional study

Table 1 Distribution of head of household baseline characteristics

Variable name	Variable groups	Frequency—n (%)
Sex of HoH	Male	234 (77.5 %)
Sex of HoH	Female	68 (22.5 %)
Age of HoH	Median (± SD)	43.3 (± 13.0)
HH member size	Median (± SD)	5.0 (± 1.9)
HH with at least one/more children under five	Yes	243 (80.4 %)
HH with at least one/more children under five with fever/malaria in the last 3 months	Yes	3 (1 %)
Family owns the house lived in	Yes	255 (84.4)
Family owns a piece of land	Yes	209 (69.2 %)
HoH main occupation	Farmer	276 (91.4 %)
	Public officer	4 (1.3 %)
	Self-employer	14 (4.6 %)
	Private officer	2 (0.7 %)
	Unemployed	4 (1.3 %)
	Other	2 (0.7 %)
HoH highest educational level	None	96 (31.7 %)
	Primary School	179 (59.3 %)
	Post primary/vocational	7 (2.3 %)
	Secondary or higher	20 (6.6 %)
HoH marital status	Never married	9 (3 %)
	Married	143 (47.4 %)
	Living together	78 (25.8 %)
	Separated/divorced	25 (8.3 %)
	Widowed	47 (15.6 %)
ITN ownership and use	No of HHs owning at least 1 bed net	274 (90.7 %)
ITN ownership and use	No of HH that used ITN the night before survey	224 (73.2 %)
HH sprayed in the last 6 months	Yes	274 (90.7 %)
HoH health insurance ownership	Yes	270 (89.4 %)
HoH ability to pay medical services and medicines	Yes	217 (71.9 %)

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