Table 4.
Treatment seeking for TB symptoms among women and men in Non-LDFU group
| Non-LDFU women n = 22 | Non-LDFU men n = 28 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How reporteda | How reporteda | |||||||||
| Categorya | Total reported % | Spont % | Probe % | Most important % | Mean Prominenceb | Total reported% | Spont % | Probe % | Most Important % | Mean Prominenceb |
| Home remedies | 86.3 | 54.5 | 31.8 | 9.1 | 1.6 | 75.0 | 32.1 | 43.0 | 14.3 | 1.5 |
| Pharmacy | 81.8 | 40.9 | 40.9 | 27.3 | 2.0 | 96.4 | 75.0 | 21.4 | 28.6 | 2.6 |
| Hospital | 68.2 | 36.4 | 31.8 | 4.6 | 1.2 | 71.4 | 50.0 | 21.4 | 7.1 | 1.4 |
| Traditional healer | 81.8 | 36.4 | 45.5 | 22.7 | 1.7 | 67.9 | 39.3 | 28.6 | 32.1 | 2.0 |
| Religious healer | 59.1 | 13.6 | 45.5 | 9.1 | 1.0 | 39.3 | 3.6 | 35.7 | 3.6 | 0.5 |
| Dispensary | 40.9 | 18.1 | 22.7 | 0 | 0.5 | 42.8 | 7.1 | 35.7 | 3.6 | 0.6 |
| TB clinic | 22.8 | 4.6 | 18.2 | 9.1 | 0.5 | 21.4 | 3.6 | 18.0 | 0 | 0.3 |
Non-LDFU non- loss to diagnostic follow-up, a Columns indicate percentage of reported categories and whether a category was identified as most troubling; b Mean prominence based on values assigned to each reported category (0 = not reported, 1 = reported after probing, 2 = reported spontaneously 3 = identified as most troubling 4 = most troubling and reported after probing 5 = most troubling and reported spontaneously