Table 3. Characteristics of studies on care seeking behavior.
Diarrhoea (n = 33) | Malaria (n = 32) | Pneumonia (n = 21) | Total1 (n = 77) | ||
Location | Africa | 17 | 31 | 8 | 49 |
Asia | 15 | 1 | 10 | 24 | |
Latin America | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
Date of data collection | Before 1990 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
1990–1999 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 23 | |
2000–2009 | 17 | 21 | 11 | 42 | |
2010–2012 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
Age of participants | <2 years | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
<3 years | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
<5 years | 31 | 29 | 20 | 71 | |
Sample size | 50–100 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
101–500 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 28 | |
501–1000 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 | |
1001–5000 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 18 | |
>5000 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
Five studies examined two diseases, two studies examined all three diseases and one study was carried out in three continents (Africa, Asia and Latin America).