Table 6 |
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Help-seeking from outside the home for MRI with and without convulsions |
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| Outside help seeking reported1 |
How reported2 |
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| Vignette with convulsion (n = 101) |
Vignette without convulsion (n = 100) |
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| Total |
Fraction Spont. |
Total |
Fraction Spont. |
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| Clinic & hospital |
99.0 |
0.96 |
100.0 |
1.00 |
| Government/community clinic |
95.1 |
0.96 |
99.0 |
0.97 |
| Government hospital |
95.0 |
0.96 |
98.0 |
1.00 |
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| Local healers & religious leaders |
84.2 |
0.40 |
66.0 |
0.26** |
| Local healers |
69.4 |
0.46 |
57.0 |
0.26** |
| Religious leaders (pastors/Imams) |
44.3 |
0.11 |
35.0 |
0.06 |
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| Other source of modern pharmaceuticals |
13.8 |
0.43 |
19.0 |
0.21 |
| Health worker in the community for advice |
12.8 |
0.38 |
17.0 |
0.12 |
| Drug/chemical shops for advice |
3.0 |
0.33 |
8.0 |
0.25 |
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1 Outside help-seeking analysed as groups (in bold) based on reported categories that follow. *p ≤ 0.10 and ** p ≤ 0.05. Wilcoxon test for comparison of prominence of reported categories (2 = spontaneous, 1 = probed response, 0 = not reported). 2Column values indicate frequency of reported categories and the fraction of these reported spontaneously. |
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Ahorlu et al. Malaria Journal 2005 4:47 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-4-47 |
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