Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of respondents and Traditional Medicine Utilisation.

Traditional medicines utilisation
Variable	Didn't use TM		Used TM		Fisher Exact	MLR-OR	MLR-95% CI	MLR P-value
	Freq	%	Freq	%
Age
15–19*	33	26.0	5	10.0	0.011	***
20–24	26	20.5	7	14.0		1.78	0.51–6.25	0.37
25–29	25	19.7	9	18.0		2.38	0.71–7.97	0.16
30–34	18	14.2	8	16.0		2.93	0.84–10.30	0.09
35–39	18	14.2	9	18.0		3.30	0.96–11.35	0.06
40–44	5	3.9	7	14.0		9.24	2.10–40.75	< 0.01
45–49	2	1.6	4	8.0		13.2	1.90–91.91	< 0.01
50–54	0.00	0.0	1	1.0		1
Mean (sd) 29.1 years (9.1)	27.4 (8.4)	33.4 (9.6)
Marital status
Single*	18	14.2	7	14.0	0.853	***
In a relationship	45	35.4	14	28.0		0.80	0.28–2.31	0.68
Married	42	33.1	18	36.0		1.10	0.39–3.10	0.85
Widowed	7	5.5	5	10.0		1.84	0.43–7.77	0.41
Divorced	6	4.7	2	4.0		0.86	0.14–5.31	0.87
Cohabiting	9	7.1	4	8.0		1.14	0.26–4.95	0.86
Tribe
Ndebele***	58	45.7	18	36.0	0.349	***
Shona	14	11.0	4	8.0		0.92	0.27–3.15	0.90
Kalanga	50	39.4	24	48.0		1.55	0.75–3.17	0.23
Tonga	3	2.4	1	2.0		1.07	0.11–10.97	0.95
Other	2	1.6	3	6.0		4.83	0.75–31.23	0.10
Religion
Christian***	104	81.9	35	70.0	0.002	***
Traditional	11	8.7	14	28.0		3.78	1.57–9.10	< 0.01
None	12	9.5	1	2.0		0.25	0.03–1.97	0.19
Level of education
Primary***	35	27.6	13	26.0	0.342	***
Ordinary level	54	42.5	24	48.0		1.20	0.54–2.66	0.66
Advanced level	23	18.1	8	16.0		0.94	0.34–2.61	0.90
Tertiary	11	8.7	1	2.0		0.24	0.03–2.09	0.20
Never attended school	4	3.2	4	8.0		2.69	0.59–12.37	0.20
Employment status
Employed	22	17.3	12	24.0	0.495	***
Self Employed	23	18.1	10	20.0		0.80	0.29–2.22	0.66
Unemployed	82	64.6	28	56.0		0.63	0.27–1.43	0.26
Place of delivery
Hospital	99	78.0	32	64.0	0.086	***
Home	28	22.1	18	36.0		1.99	0.97–4.06	0.06
First child
Yes	47	37.0	6	12.0	0.001	***
No	80	63.0	44	88.0		4.46	1.77–11.24	< 0.01
Parity
1	48	37.8	6	12.0	0.002	***
2–5	75	59.1	39	78.0		4.16	1.64–10.57	< 0.01
6 >  =	4	3.2	5	10.0		10.00	2.09–47.82	< 0.01

Relationship between parity and age
	Mean (sd)	Used TM (Mean; sd)	Did Not Use TM (Mean; sd)
15–19	1.1 (0.3)
20–24	1.5 (0.5)
25–29	1.9 (1.3)
30–34	2.0 (0.3)
35–39	2.0 (0.2)
40–44	2.7 (1.6)
45–49	2.7 (1.6)
50–54	2.7 (1.6)
Overall	1.90 (1.1)	2.3 (1.3)	1.7 (0.9)