Table 7.
Time to treatment initiation, duration, disruption of income-earning and illness expenditure by study areas and sex
| South-eastern districts | North-eastern districts | significance | |||||
| M | F | All | M | F | All | ||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | c vs. f | |
| Treatment initiated % | p < 0.01 | ||||||
| Within 24 hours | 44.8 | 41.7 | 43.2 | 24.6 | 27.3 | 25.7 | (χ2) |
| Beyond 24 hours | 55.2 | 58.3 | 56.8 | 75.4 | 72.7 | 74.3 | |
| Duration of illness % | p < 0.01 | ||||||
| ≤ 3 days | 29.1 | 33.9 | 31.7 | 19.6 | 21.9 | 20.5 | (χ2) |
| 4–7 days | 50.5 | 36.4 | 43.0 | 28.3 | 37.5 | 32.1 | |
| ≥ 7 days | 20.4 | 29.7 | 25.3 | 52.2 | 40.6 | 47.4 | |
| Days income-earning was disrupted (mean) | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 7.0 | 9.2 | 7.6 | p < 0.003 (t-test) |
*beggar, unemployed, too old/sick to work etc.