Table 3. Envenoming severity and acute complications according to health-seeking pathways, with univariate and multivariate adjusted odds ratios (aOR, adjusted for potential confounders: Age, sex, profession, village, habitat, time, season).
| Health-seeking pathways (n = 66) | Severe envenoming |
Acute complications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total N | N (%) |
Crude OR (95%CI) | Adjusted OR (95%CI), P-value |
N (%) |
Crude OR (95%CI) | Adjusted OR (95%CI), P-value |
|
| Health facility | 31 | 18 (58) |
0.92 (0.35–2.5) |
1.0 (0.19–5.2), 0.997 | 15 (48) |
1.1 (0.43–2.97) | 2.3 (0.42–13), 0.33 |
| Health facility ONLY | 4 | 2 (50) |
0.68 (0.09–5.12) |
0.12 (.006–2.3), 0.15 | 1 (25) |
0.31 (0.03–3.2) | 0.12 (0.005–2.4), 0.16 |
| Self-family care | 59 | 34 (58) | 0.54 (0.097–9.0 |
0.87 (0.12–6.5), 0.89 | 14 (70) |
1.38 (0.28–6.7) | 1.8 (0.23–13), 0.59 |
|
Self-family care ONLY |
15 | 5 (33) |
0.25 (0.07–0.84) |
0.11 (0.02–0.6), 0.013 |
3 (20) |
0.18 (0.04–0.70) | 0.92 (0.015–0.57), 0.011 |
| Traditional healer | 25 | 20 (80) | 4.6 (1.5–15) |
19.6 (2.46–156.1), 0.005 | 18 (100) |
4.5 (1.5–13) | 17.3 (2.4–123), 0.004 |
| Traditional healer ONLY | 3 | 3 (100) |
NA*, p = 0.14 | NA*, p = 0.88 | 2 (66) |
2.1 (0.17–24) | 3.2 (0.17–62), 0.44 |
*OR and aOR not measurable for this small sample