Structural form of Question | ||||||
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Question Type | Question Example | Number of consultations N (%) | Polar N (%) | Content N (%) | Alternative N (%) | Total N |
Wider information gathering | “Any symptoms that you are having concerns about, besides his skin now?” | 41 (77) | 194 (77) | 50 (20) | 7 (3) | 251 |
Assessing feeding/growth monitoring/ immunisations | “So you are no longer breastfeeding?” | 37 (70) | 165 (69) | 69 (29) | 6 (3) | 240 |
Asking about reported complaint | “Coughing for how many days?” | 45 (85) | 119 (61) | 67 (34) | 9 (5) | 195 |
Eliciting psychosocial issues | “And you do you have support from the child’s father?” | 29 (55) | 143 (84) | 24 (14) | 4 (2) | 171 |
Asking about HIV or TB | “Have you tested for HIV when you were pregnant?” | 36 (68) | 95 (71) | 32 (24) | 7 (5) | 134 |
Asking about treatments | “What tablet did you give?” | 31 (58) | 86 (72) | 27 (23) | 7 (6) | 120 |
Asking about other long term health conditions | “Is he a known asthmatic?” | 18 (34) | 50 (89) | 6 (11) | 0 (0) | 56 |
Asking about family planning | “And you yourself are you on any family planning mommy?” | 19 (36) | 26 (72) | 9 (25) | 1 (3) | 36 |
Assessing past medical care other than TB/HIV | “So the child hasn’t been treated at any other institution before for anything, for this problem?” | 7 (13) | 6 (67) | 2 (22) | 1 (11) | 9 |
Eliciting caregiver concerns, ideas, expectations | “Is there anything that you would like to ask?” | 5 (9) | 6 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 6 |
Total | 890 | 286 | 42 | 1218 |