Table 3.
Health care-seeking practice of patients with coughing for 2 or more weeks of duration in Kaffa zone health facilities, Southwest district of Ethiopia, 2019.
| Variables | Patients with cough (n = 802) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Categories | Number | % | |
| Duration of cough | For ≤2 weeks | 421 | 52.5 |
| For >2 weeks | 381 | 47.5 | |
| Sputum smear microscopy requested | Requested | 468 | 58.4 |
| Not requested (missed) | 334 | 41.6 | |
| Willingness to check their TB status (from 334) | Yes | 324 | 97.0 |
| No | 10 | 3.0 | |
| Sputum smear microscopy results (from 324) | Positive | 11 | 3.4 |
| Negative | 313 | 96.6 | |
| The first action taken before coming here | Nothing done | 262 | 32.7 |
| Visited health facilities | 144 | 18.0 | |
| Traditional treatment | 113 | 14.0 | |
| Taking antibiotics from pharmacies | 283 | 35.3 | |
| TB contact history | Yes | 145 | 18.1 |
| No | 657 | 81.9 | |
| Informed TB status of their relatives | Health workers | 48 | 33.1 |
| Relatives | 97 | 66.9 | |
| Those checked TB status | Tested | 35 | 24.1 |
| Not tested | 110 | 75.9 | |
| Ever having health education on TB disease | Yes | 190 | 24.2 |
| No | 608 | 75.8 | |