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Table 2 Mothers health care seeking behavior in Aneded District, North West Ethiopia, 2016

From: Mothers’ health care seeking behavior and associated factors for common childhood illnesses, Northwest Ethiopia: community based cross-sectional study

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

  1. Remark: aIndicates the sum in the above table could be greater than 100%, since it is a multiple response