Variables | Frequency | % |
---|---|---|
Health care seeking behavior | ||
Health facility | 200 | 48.8 |
Not seek at all | 99 | 24.1 |
Buying drugs by themselves | 46 | 11.2 |
Traditional healers | 28 | 6.8 |
Homemade treatment | 22 | 5.4 |
Holy water | 15 | 3.7 |
Perceived need for seeking early health care | ||
Children need health care early regardless of disease type | 304 | 74.2 |
Depends on the disease types | 87 | 21.2 |
No need of seeking health care early at all | 19 | 4.6 |
Reported common child illness in the past three monthsa | ||
Fever | 213 | 52 |
Cough or difficulty of breathing | 203 | 49.5 |
Diarrhea | 185 | 45.1 |
Decision to seek heath care at health institution during child illness | ||
Mother | 72 | 18.5 |
Father | 57 | 14 |
Both father and mother | 277 | 67.5 |
Awareness of signs indicating severe illnessa | ||
When the child is unable to feed or suck breast | 317 | 77.3 |
When a child shows behavioral change | 256 | 62.4 |
When the disease stayed for days | 118 | 33.7 |
Perceived cause of child illnessa | ||
Curse from God | 173 | 42.2 |
Micro-organisms | 190 | 46.3 |
Food contamination | 116 | 28.3 |
Evil eye | 73 | 17.8 |