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Table 5 Associations between miner’s ideation and malaria care-seeking, testing, and self-medication

From: Malaria care-seeking and treatment ideation among gold miners in Guyana

Overall ideation

aOR (95% CI) of care-seeking and treatment outcomes

Any care-seeking

Prompt care-seeking

Testing

Self-medication

Ideation score (per 1 unit increase)

1.19 (1.04–1.36)

1.10 (0.93–1.30)

1.22 (1.07–1.38)

0.87 (0.77–0.99)

Ideation variables

    

 Knowledge

1.56 (1.10–2.20)

1.39 (0.97–1.99)

1.63 (1.17–2.29)

0.98 (0.71–1.34)

 Perceived severity

0.83 (0.40–1.74)

0.98 (0.46–2.09)

0.67 (0.34–1.34)

0.74 (0.38–1.46)

 Perceived susceptibility

0.98 (0.70–1.37)

1.36 (0.95–1.96)

0.95 (0.54–1.68)

1.00 (0.70–1.42)

 Perceived norms

1.28 (0.80–2.05)

1.09 (0.68–1.75)

1.53 (1.07–2.19)

0.86 (0.55–1.34)

 Perceived self-efficacy

1.25 (0.88–1.79)

1.02 (0.71–1.45)

1.51 (1.01–2.27)

0.74 (0.51–1.07)

 Perceived response efficacy

1.51 (1.02–2.24)

1.24 (0.86–1.78)

1.41 (1.02–1.95)

0.70 (0.51–0.95)

 Beliefs

1.30 (0.94–1.79)

1.01 (0.68–1.49)

1.32 (0.98–1.80)

0.66 (0.46–0.94)

 Advocacy/Interpersonal communication

1.41 (0.90–2.22)

0.99 (0.62–1.56)

1.34 (0.75–2.39)

0.99 (0.64–1.54)

  1. Adjusted for region, sex, religion, age, marital status, education, mining experience, prior episode of malaria, ownership of a mobile phone and access to mass media channels