Table 1.

Scio-demographic factors of delayed treatment-seeking among mothers of under-five children with diarrheal disease visited Debre Markos Town public health facilities, Northwestern Ethiopia, 2020(n=408)

Variables		Cases(N=136)		Controls(N=272)
	Categories	N	%	N	%
Ages of child	<24months	84	61.7	133	48.9
	≥24months	52	38.3	139	51.1
Sex of child	Females	83	61	126	46.3
	Males	53	39	146	53.7
Place of residence	Rural	18	13.3	34	12.5
	Urban	118	86.7	238	87.5
birth order of child	≤2	88	64.7	186	68.4
	3–4	41	30.1	70	25.7
	≥5	7	5.2	16	5.9
Age category of the mother	15–25years	30	22	70	25.7
	26–34years	92	67.6	155	57
	≥35years	14	10.4	47	17.3
Educational status of mothers	No formal education	35	25.8	53	19.5
	Primary school	61	44.8	76	29.4
	Secondary school	20	14.7	59	21.7
	College and above	20	14.7	84	30.9
Educational status of the father	No formal education	11	8	17	6.2
	Primary school	46	33.8	64	23.5
	Secondary school	17	12.6	37	13.6
	College and above	62	45.6	154	56.7
Occupation of mothers	Housewife	85	62.5	152	55.9
	Government employee	16	11.7	51	18.75
	Merchant	20	14.7	48	17.6
	Farmer	15	11	21	7.7
Occupation of father	Government employee	46	33.8	119	43.75
	Merchant	51	37.5	85	31.25
	Farmer	18	13.3	30	11
	Daily laborer	21	15.4	38	14
Ethnicity of mothers	Amhara	134	98.5	269	99
	Tigray	2	1.5	3	1
Marital status of the mother	Single	3	2.2	19	7
	Married	124	91.2	243	89
	Divorced	9	6.5	10	4
Religion of mothers	Orthodox	125	92	245	90
	Muslim	5	3.7	14	5
	Protestant	5	3.7	10	4
	Catholic	1	0.7	3	1

Note: N- number