Table 5.

Frequency table of themes in interviews.

Frequency table of health seeking behaviours
Treatment type	Treatment preference	Specific action mentioned	No. of FGDs theme emerged within (n = 41)	% of FGDs
Self-treatment	Biomedical	Drug purchase related:
		General self-treatment	40	98
		Buying medicines from agrovet	18	44
		Buying medicines from a market	6	15
		Information related:
		Reliance on one's own past experience/self knowledge	32	78
		Self-treatment through a process of trial and error	21	51
		Seeking advice from one's social network	16	39
		Using preventative treatments such as dipping	17	41
	Local practises	Collecting and administering herbs/lay treatments oneself	19	46
		Using traditional herd management techniques for prevention or treatment	4	10
Formal treatment	Biomedical	Formal biomedical treatment including vaccinations or severe outbreaks	33	81
		Formal biomedical treatment excluding vaccinations or severe outbreaks*, i.e., everyday illness	18	45
		Treatment from LFO	10	24
		Treatment advice from agrovet	12	29
		Treatment via paraprofessional or community animal health worker (CAHWs)	7	17
	Local practises	Herbal/lay remedy expert	4	10
		Situational experts e.g., birthing	3	7

We only included interviews that had audio recordings and English transcripts for this component of the analysis, or a total of 41 of 64 FGDs. More than one type of treatment was typical for every interview analysed and no interview mentioned <4 types of specific actions. There were 6 interviews that described only self-treatment without formal treatment, whereas there were no interviews that mentioned formal treatment without self-treatment. ^*Severe outbreaks refer to major disease outbreaks that span to community or broader than community wide incidence, and which often require government intervention and often lead to suspension of market activities, for example anthrax or RVF. We note that comparison should be made between formal treatment exclusive of vaccinations, to denote everyday use of formal systems.