Table 4.

Prevalence of symptoms and care seeking behaviour by region

Indicator	Volta region	Northern region	N	%b
	N	%b
Had fever during past 2 weeksa	621/671	90.9	635/685	94.4
Had diarrhoea during past 2 weeks	287/671	49.0	291/685	42.7
Had cough during past 2 weeks	408/671	65.9	334/685	53.1
Had suspected pneumonia during past 2 weeks	153/671	21.4	80/685	10.2
Sought care (for any of the three symptoms)	639/671	93.1	626/685	92.8
From CBA	90/671	17.3	8/685	1.0
From CHPS	61/671	11.8	228/685	31.3
From health centre	130/671	12.2	155/685	21.1
From hospital	153/671	24.2	83/685	13.0
From private clinic	19/671	4.0	25/685	7.3
From licensed chemical seller	153/671	19.5	88/685	14.9
From drug peddler	29/671	3.3	33/685	5.5
From traditional healer	0/671	0	6/685	0.6
From other providers	4/671	0.4	0/685	0
Care not sought	32/671	6.8	59/685	7.3
Not aware/don’t have CBA	213/671	29.8	314/685	40.6
Sought care in the first 24 h (for any of the three symptoms)	299/671	40.0	413/685	62.5
From CBA	58/90	56.0	6/8	79.9
From CHPS	22/61	36.3	163/228	76.9
From health centre	62/130	33.8	104/155	72.4
From hospital	60/153	45.7	54/83	59.0
From private clinic	4/19	20.6	12/25	47.8
From licensed chemical seller	74/153	40.8	58/88	59.1
From drug peddler	16/29	49.7	14/33	55.6
From traditional healer	0	0	2/6	43.2
From other providers	3/4	54.7	0	0
Sought care in the first 24 h in case of fever	278/621	40.2	385/635	62.5
Sought care in the first 24 h in case of diarrhoea	140/287	40.6	159/291	58.3
Sought care in the first 24 h in case of cough	178/408	39.4	188/334	54.9
Sought care in the first 24 h in case of suspected pneumonia	71/153	33.4	47/80	56.4
Sought care from appropriate provider (for any of the three symptoms)	609/671	89.6	587/685	86.4
Sought care from appropriate provider in first 24 h (for any of the three symptoms)	282/671	38.1	397/685	59.1

^aFever refers to hot body or chills

^bWeighted estimates