Table 2.

Healthcare-seeking behaviours of caretakers of under-five children, by reported illness, Bondo district, Kenya, 2005

Healthcare-seeking behaviour	Past 12 months*	Past 2 weeks
	% of children with reported pneumonia (95% CI) (n=50)	% of children with reported acute respiratory illness (95% CI) (n=123)	% of children with reported diarrhoea (95% CI) (n=188)	% of children with reported fever (95% CI) (n=589)
Healthcare-seeking behaviours outside household
Any care sought outside household	100	85.4 (77.1-91.0)	85.7 (79.8-90.1)	85.4 (82.3-88.0)
Any health facility visitation	88.0 (75.7-94.5)	41.5 (32.6-50.9)	36.0 (29.3-43.2)	35.2 (31.4-39.3)
Hospital visitation	48.0 (34.8-61.5)	17.9 (11.9-25.9)	7.9 (4.9-12.7)	11.2 (8.9-14.1)
Hospitalization	26.0 (15.9-39.6)	6.5 (3.3-12.5)	1.6 (0.5-4.8)	3.4 (2.1-5.2)
Private care providers	24.0 (14.2-37.5)	22.8 (15.8-31.7)	24.3 (18.6-31.2)	22.1 (18.8-26.0)
Drug-sellers	20.0 (11.3-33.0)	39.0 (30.3-48.6)	45.0 (37.9-52.3)	45.0 (40.8-49.2)
Traditional healers	4.0 (1.0-14.8)	3.3 (1.2-8.4)	7.4 (4.3-12.5)	6.9 (5.0-9.4)
Village health volunteers	2.0 (0.3-13.0)	4.9 (2.2-10.5)	6.3 (3.7-10.7)	6.0 (4.3-8.3)
Reported diagnostics
Chest radiograph	6.0 (1.9-17.1)	3.3 (1.2-8.2)	0	0.7 (0.3-1.8)
Blood smear	0	17.9 (11.9-26.0)	15.3 (10.7-21.6)	16.6 (13.8-19.9)
Reported treatments
Antibiotics	44.0 (30.8-58.1)	61.0 (51.8-69.4)	62.4 (55.0-69.4)	56.0 (51.8-60.2)
Antimalarial medication	66.0 (51.7-77.9)	59.3 (50.0-68.1)	52.4 (45.2-59.5)	60.9 (56.8-64.9)
Oral rehydration therapy	20.0 (11.1-33.4)	17.9 (11.6-26.5)	32.3 (25.9-39.4)	12.8 (10.2-15.8)
Intravenous fluid	0	2.4 (0.8-7.3)	2.6 (1.1-6.2)	1.0 (0.5-2.2)
Herbal/traditional remedies	40.0 (27.3-54.2)	34.1 (25.6-43.8)	40 (33-48)	35.1 (31.1-39.4)
Prayer	40.0 (27.3-54.2)	26.0 (18.5-35.2)	32.8 (26.1-40.3)	27.9 (24.1-32.0)

*Excludes two weeks before interview