Table 2. Healthcare system and other related characteristics of respondents’, North Gondar zone, Northwest Ethiopia, May 2013.
Characteristics | Frequency | Percent | |
Time to reach to the health facility | ≤30 minutes | 205 | 73.2 |
>30 minutes | 75 | 26.8 | |
Transportation | On foot | 266 | 95 |
Public transport | 14 | 5.0 | |
Waiting time in the health facilities | ≤30 minutes | 269 | 96.1 |
>30 minutes | 11 | 3.9 | |
Availability of drugs | Always available | 278 | 99.3 |
Not always available | 2 | 0.7 | |
Counseling | Yes | 204 | 72.9 |
No | 76 | 27.1 | |
Relationship with health workers | Very friendly | 152 | 54.3 |
Friendly | 126 | 45.0 | |
Unfriendly | 2 | 0.7 | |
TB status disclosure to the family | Yes | 272 | 97.1 |
No | 8 | 2.9 | |
Treatment supporter | Health facility worker | 166 | 59.3 |
Health extension worker | 4 | 1.4 | |
A family member | 182 | 65 | |
Religious leaders | 10 | 3.6 | |
No treatment supporter | 22 | 7.9 | |
Visited quacks | Yes | 36 | 12.9 |
No | 244 | 87.1 |
Quacks are ‘Traditional healers’.