Treatment-seeking behaviours | Control (n = 52) | Case (n = 52) | P-value (Fisher’s test) | OR (95%CI) |
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No treatment | ||||
 Always seeks some form of treatment/remedy ill | 52 (100%) | 50 (96.15%) | 0.49 | 1.00 |
 Does not always seek treatment/remedy when ill | 0 (0%) | 2 (3.85%) |  | Inf (0.19, Inf) |
Self-medication | ||||
 Frequently attempts to self-medicate | 52 (100%) | 51 (98.08%) | 1 | 1.00 |
 Rarely attempts to self-medicate | 0 (0%) | 1 (1.92%) |  | Inf (0.026, Inf) |
Traditional healer | ||||
 Does not visit traditional healers when ill | 37 (71.15%) | 15 (28.84%) | < 0.001 | 1.00 |
 Visits traditional healers when ill | 10 (28.84%) | 42 (80.77%) |  | 10.08 (3.82, 28.85) |
Spiritual healer | ||||
 Does not visit spiritual healers when ill | 46 (88.46%) | 22 (44.31%) | < 0.001 | 1.00 |
 Visits spiritual healers when ill | 6 (11.54%) | 30 (57.69%) |  | 10.19 (3.52, 34.51) |
Hospital | ||||
 Does not go to hospital when ill | 0 (0%) | 5 (9.61%) | 0.057 | 1.00 |
 Goes to hospital when ill | 52 (100%) | 47 (90.38%) |  | 0 (0.00, 1.05) |