Table 2.
Use of TRM by income level.
| Monthly pocket money |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <GHC100 |
GHC100–200 |
GHC201–300 |
Total |
p-value | ||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | N (%) | |||
| Status of TRM (Past 12 months) | Yes | 220 (84.6) | 278 (92.7) | 173 (89.2) | 671 (89.0) | <0.001 |
| No | 40 (15.4) | 22 (7.3) | 21 (10.8) | 83 (11.0) | ||
| Sources of TRM | Self-application | 54 (24.5) | 42 (15.1) | 37 (21.4) | 133 (19.8) | <0.001 |
| Consult faith healer | 35 (15.9) | 86 (30.9) | 56 (32.4) | 177 (26.4) | ||
| Self appliance | 41 (18.6) | 62 (22.3) | 16 (9.2) | 119 (17.7) | ||
| Pharmacy shops | 62 (28.2) | 81 (29.1) | 53 (30.6) | 196 (29.2) | ||
| Open market | 28 (12.7) | 7 (2.5) | 11 (6.4) | 46 (6.9) | ||
| Reason(s) for using TRM | Prevention of illness | 38 (17.3) | 34 (12.2) | 16 (9.2) | 88 (13.1) | <0.001 |
| Treating of illness | 111 (50.5) | 135 (48.6) | 95 (54.9) | 341 (50.8) | ||
| Improvement of health | 57 (25.9) | 21 (7.6) | 37 (21.4) | 115 (17.1) | ||
| To maintain health | 4 (1.8) | 84 (30.2) | 25 (14.5) | 113 (16.8) | ||
| Other | 10 (4.5) | 4 (1.4) | 0 (.0) | 14 (2.1) | ||
| Information sources about TRM | Family member | 120 (54.5) | 148 (53.2) | 70 (40.5) | 338 (50.4) | <0.001 |
| Friend | 11 (5.0) | 23 (8.3) | 18 (10.4) | 52 (7.7) | ||
| Literature | 25 (11.4) | 25 (9.0) | 0 (.0) | 50 (7.5) | ||
| Mass media | 26 (11.8) | 66 (23.7) | 53 (30.6) | 145 (21.6) | ||
| Health care provider | 38 (17.3) | 16 (5.8) | 32 (18.5) | 86 (12.8) | ||
| Frequency of TRM use | Daily | 17 (7.7) | 32 (11.5) | 7 (4.0) | 56 (8.3) | <0.001 |
| Weekly | 15 (6.8) | 68 (24.5) | 25 (14.5) | 108 (16.1) | ||
| Monthly | 72 (32.7) | 32 (11.5) | 37 (21.4) | 141 (21.0) | ||
| Annually | 59 (26.8) | 67 (24.1) | 15 (8.7) | 141 (21.0) | ||
| Occasionally | 57 (25.9) | 79 (28.4) | 89 (51.4) | 225 (33.5) | ||
| Times of TRM in the last 4 sicknesses | Not at all | 49 (22.3) | 82 (29.5) | 69 (39.9) | 200 (29.8) | <0.001 |
| Once | 26 (11.8) | 37 (13.3) | 35 (20.2) | 98 (14.6) | ||
| Two times | 114 (51.8) | 80 (28.8) | 15 (8.7) | 209 (31.1) | ||
| Three times | 11 (5.0) | 55 (19.8) | 38 (22.0) | 104 (15.5) | ||
| Four times | 20 (9.1) | 24 (8.6) | 16 (9.2) | 60 (8.9) | ||