Table 2.
Pattern of Past Treatments and Care-Seeking Practices of Participants
| Characteristics | SCD Patients N=110 n (%) |
Controls N=110 n (%) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| General pattern of how treatment was received | |||
| Our Hospital: Yes | 110.0 (100.0) | 110.0 (100.0) | |
| Other places alongside our hospital: Yes | 66 (60.0) | 35 (31.8) | <0.0001* |
| No | 44 (40.0) | 75 (68.2) | |
| Sites where treatment was received outside our hospital | |||
| aPrivate hospital: Yes | 32 (29.1) | 15 (13.7) | 0.0052* |
| No | 78 (70.9) | 95 (86.3) | |
| aPatent Medicine shop: Yes | 55 (50.0) | 35 (31.8) | 0.006* |
| No | 55 (50.0) | 75 (68.2) | |
| aTraditional care: Yes | 10 (9.1) | 6 (5.5) | 0.437† |
| No | 100 (90.9) | 104 (94.5) | |
| aFaith-based centers: Yes | 27 (24.5) | 11 (9.0) | 0.007† |
| No | 83 (75.5) | 99 (90.0) | |
| Type of treatment/care received aside drugs (orthodox and non-orthodox) within past 1year | |||
| Blood transfusions: Yes | 51 (46.4) | 25 (22.7) | 0.0002* |
| No | 59 (53.6) | 85 (77.3) | |
| Surgical operations: Yes | 1 (0.9) | 2 (1.8) | 1.000† |
| No | 109 (99.1) | 108 (98.2) | |
| Prayer at faith based (religious) centres: Yes | 27 (24.5) | 25 (22.7) | 0.751* |
| No | 83 (75.5) | 85 (77.3) | |
| Use of biologic products (herbal medicines at traditional healing center): Yes | 10 (9.1) | 6 (5.5) | 0.437† |
| No | 100(90.9) | 104(94.5) | |
| Scarifications (at traditional healing center): Yes | 8(7.3) | 5(4.5) | 0.284† |
| No | 102(92.7) | 105(95.5) | |
Notes: Test statistics = †Fisher’s exact test, *Chi-Square test. aMany individual patients received treatments at multiple places, P values in bold fonts indicate statistical significance.
Abbreviation: SCD, sickle cell disease.