Skip to main content

Table 2 People’s choices of health care destination

From: Village health workers as health diplomats: negotiating health and study participation in a malaria elimination trial in The Gambia

When you are ill, do you go to the VHW?

Baseline

Endline

Total

Always

17.7

29.2

(45)

Most of the times

21.9

34.4

(54)

Sometimes

50.0

27.1

(74)

Never

10.4

9.4

(19)

DK

-

-

-

N (100%)

96

96

192

Chi-square = 11.9 (df = 3); prob. < 0.01; Cramer’s V = 0.25 (missing: 38)

Where do you go in case of fever?

Baseline

Endline

Total

Traditional healer/Marabout

0.8

2.0

(3)

VHW

12.0

22.0

(37)

Health facility

86.4

76.0

(184)

DK

0.8

0.0

(1)

N (100%)

125

100

225

Chi-square = 5.51 (df = 3); prob. < 0.14; Cramer’s V = 0.17 (missing: 5)

In case you don’t recover, where do you go next?

Baseline

Endline

Total

Traditional healer/Marabout

2.4

1.0

(4)

VHW

0.0

0.0

(0)

Health facility

96.8

99.0

(220)

DK

0.8

0.0

(1)

N (100%)

125

100

225

Chi-square = 1.42 (df = 3); not significant; Cramer’s V = 0.08 (missing: 4)

* the null (0.0) cells are due to small sample size