Table 1.
perception about the human African trypanosomiasis in the study population
| Districts | Total (n=220) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perceptions | Mpouya (n=80) | Ngabe (n=100) | Loudima (n=40) | |
| Rural disease % (n) | 34.1 (27) | 44.6 (44) | 33.2 (13) | 48.2 (106) |
| Curse % (n) | 25.1 (20) | 23.8 (24) | 17.8 (7) | 8.6 (19) |
| Witchcraft % (n) | 22.1 (18) | 20.7 (21) | 36.5 (15) | 22.3 (49) |
| Bad luck % (n) | 11.4 (9) | 8.2 (8) | 6.6 (3) | 11.8 (26) |
| Do not know % (n) | 7.3 (6) | 2.7 (3) | 5.9 (2) | 9.1(20) |
| Chi2 | 3.19 | |||
| p-value | 0.203 | |||
The Chi2 test was calculated to compare the distribution of answers by district; n: number of participants