Table 4.
Knowledge, attitude, and practice of the study patients about PKDL.
| Items | Respondents | Number | Patients delay (in days) | System delay (in days) | ||
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| Mean | Median | Mean | Median | |||
| Heard the name PKDL | Yes | 14 (7) | 499.29 | 97 | 112.14 | 38 |
| No | 186 (93) | 710.87 | 380 | 41.54 | 11.15 | |
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| Knowledge about PKDL | Yes | 4 (2) | 393 | 393 | 29 | 29 |
| No | 196 (98) | 702 | 373 | 41.45 | 12 | |
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| KA is an infectious disease, transmitted by sand fly bite | Yes | 18 (9) | 393 | 393 | 29 | 10 |
| No | 182 (91) | 692.88 | 373 | 43.46 | 12 | |
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| Complete cure of the disease is possible | Yes | 42 (21) | 792 | 402 | 23 | 14 |
| No | 2 (1) | 680 | 387 | 12 | 12 | |
| Not known | 156 (78) | 723 | 320 | 27 | 11.15 | |
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| Frequency of using mosquitoes net | Always | 140 (70) | 696 | 383 | 46.48 | 12 |
| Often | 32 (16) | 732 | 470 | 57.80 | 14 | |
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| Sleeping bed | Cot | 193 (96.5) | 670.86 | 387 | 47.71 | 12 |
| Floor | 7 (3.5) | 1390 | 345 | 12.71 | 14 | |
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| Habit of day time sleeping | Regular | 56 (28) | 756 | 420 | 14.41 | 10.50 |
| Occasional | 118 (59) | 740.50 | 393 | 25.75 | 12 | |
| Rarely | 26 (13) | 361 | 121 | 209 | 20 | |
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| Insecticide spray in the house in last 1 year | Yes | 174 (87) | 673.33 | 344 | 49.77 | 12 |
| No | 26 (13) | 884 | 503 | 24.50 | 9 | |
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| First health care provider | Graduate doctor | 30 (15) | 603.37 | 238.50 | 154.90 | 11 |
| Union dispensary (Govt.) | 8 (4) | 377.50 | 310 | 19.88 | 13.50 | |
| Traditional healer | 14 (7.5) | 604.67 | 417 | 33.47 | 30 | |
| Paramedic | 19 (9.5) | 661.42 | 344 | 19.95 | 14 | |
| Village doctor | 31 (15.5) | 815.10 | 327 | 15.74 | 14 | |
| Upazila health complex (UZHC) | 57 (28.5) | 698 | 393 | 14.5 | 10 | |
| Homeopath | 11 (5.5) | 731.7 | 373 | 64.36 | 12 | |
| Pharmacy shop | 20 (10) | 663.40 | 393.50 | 14.35 | 13 | |
| Others | 9 (4.5) | 1167 | 600 | 12 | 9 | |