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Table 4 Participants’ views about service delivery measured by study specific questions

From: Patients’ Satisfaction with Lower-limb Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices and Service delivery in Sierra Leone and Malawi

 

Entire study group n = 222 (%)

Sierra Leone

n = 139 (%)

Malawi n = 83 (%)

P-value

Chi Square

The prosthetist/orthotist or technician gives me the opportunity to express my views about my assistive device n = 216

    

 Completely true

156 (72)

108 (80)

48 (59)

 

 Sometimes true

35 (16)

20 (15)

15 (19)

 

 Completely false

25 (12)

7 (5)

18 (22)

<0.001

I trust and have confidence that my prosthetist/orthotist is capable of delivering a quality service n = 221

    

 Completely true

183 (83)

115 (83)

68 (82)

 

 Sometimes true

29 (13)

18 (13)

11 (13)

 

 Completely false

9 (4)

5 (4)

4 (5)

.907