Table 4.
Characteristics of participants stratified by actions taken after the onset of fever
| Characteristics | Health facility N (%) |
Patent medicine store N (%) | Herbal treatment N (%) |
Nothing N (%) | Others N (%) | Total | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 45 [17.7] | 113 [44.5] | 28 [11.0] | 51 [20.1] | 17 [6.7] | 254 [38] | 0.06 |
| Female | 111 [26.8] | 155 [37.4] | 34 [8.2] | 89 [21.5] | 25 [6.0] | 414 [62] | |
| Age | |||||||
| 18–29 | 39 [25.3] | 64 [41.6] | 9 [5.8] | 37 [24.0] | 5 [3.2] | 154 [23.1] | |
| 30–39 | 35 [19.6] | 80 [44.7] | 16 [8.9] | 35 [19.6] | 13 [7.3] | 179 [26.8] | |
| 40–49 | 28 [19.2] | 65 [44.5] | 17 [11.7] | 24 [16.4] | 12 [8.2] | 146 [21.9] | |
| 50–59 | 24 [24] | 30 [30 | 12 [12 | 27 [27] | 7 [7] | 100 [14.9] | 0.13 |
| 60–69 | 18 [35.3] | 15 [29.4] | 6 [11.8] | 9 [17.6] | 3 [5.9] | 51 [7.6] | |
| ≥ 70 | 12 [31.6] | 14 [36.8] | 2 [5.3] | 8 [21.1] | 2 [5.3] | 38 [5.7] | |
| Districts | |||||||
| Ketu South | 56 [23.1] | 96 [39.7] | 26 [10.7] | 50 [20.7] | 14 [5.8] | 242 [36.2] | |
| Ho West | 35 [24.6] | 48 [33.8] | 15 [10.7] | 34 [23.9] | 10 [7.0] | 142 [21.3] | 0.3 |
| Hohoe | 31 [21.9] | 66 [46.8] | 7 [4.9] | 32 [22.8] | 5 [3.6] | 141 [21.1] | |
| Nkwanta South | 34 [23.8] | 58 [40.6] | 14 [9.8] | 24 [16.8] | 13 [9.1] | 143 [21.4] | |
| Religion | |||||||
| Christianity | 137 [24.8] | 222 [40.2] | 44 [7.9] | 120 [21.7] | 29 [5.3] | 552 [82.6] | |
| Islam | 5 [19.2] | 7 [26.9] | 4 [15.4] | 6 [23.1] | 4 [15.4] | 26 [3.9] | 0.1 |
| Traditional | 14 [15.6] | 39 [43.3] | 14 [15.6] | 14 [15.6] | 9 [10] | 90 [13.5] | |
| Education | |||||||
| None | 25 [22.5] | 51 [45.9] | 11 [9.9] | 16 [14.4] | 8 [7.3] | 111 [16.6] | |
| Primary | 25 [20.5] | 48 [39.3] | 14 [11.5] | 25 [20.5] | 10 [8.2] | 122 [18.3] | 0.4 |
| JHS | 61 [21.9] | 107 [38.4] | 24 [8.6] | 71 [25.4] | 16 [5.7] | 279 [41.8] | |
| SHS | 34 [28.3 | 46 [38.3] | 11 [9.2] | 23 [19.2] | 6 [5.0] | 120 [17.9] | |
| Tertiary | 11 [30.6] | 16 [44.4] | 2 [5.6] | 5 [13.9] | 2 [5.6] | 36 [5.4] | |
| Occupation | |||||||
| Farming | 46 [22.9] | 81 [40.3] | 18 [8.9] | 39 [19.4] | 17 [8.5] | 201 [30.1] | |
| Trading | 57 [30.5] | 63 [33.7] | 27 [14.4] | 30 [16.0] | 10 [5.3] | 187 [27.9] | |
| Skilled labour | 23 [17.9] | 67 [52.3] | 7 [5.5] | 27 [21.1] | 4 [3.1] | 128 [19.2] | 0.001 |
| Unskilled labour | 6 [17.6] | 10 [29.4] | 6 [17.6] | 9 [26.5] | 3 [8.8] | 34 [5.1] | |
| Civil servants | 7 [30.4] | 11 [47.8] | 1 [4.3] | 2 [8.7] | 2 [8.7] | 23 [3.4] | |
| Unemployed | 14 [17.3] | 31 [38.3] | 2 [2.5] | 30 [37.0] | 4 [4.9] | 81 [12.1] | |
| Others | 3 [21.4] | 5 [35.7] | 1 [7.1] | 3 [21.4] | 2 [14.4] | 14 [2.1] |