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Table 2 FGDs participants’ knowledge and preferences on key aspects around cholera expressed as number and percentage of respondents by oral cholera vaccine dose (multiple answers allowed)

From: “It depends how one understands it:” a qualitative study on differential uptake of oral cholera vaccine in three compounds in Lusaka, Zambia

Characteristics

0 doses

n (%)

2 doses

n (%)

Total

N (%)

N = 113

N = 58

N = 171

Known cholera symptoms

 Fever

3 (3)

0 (0)

3 (2)

 Diarrhoea with blood

4 (4)

0 (0)

4 (2)

 Diarrhoea without blood

45 (40)

33 (57)

78 (46)

 Vomiting

80 (71)

41 (71)

121 (71)

How can you get cholera

 Mosquito

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 Dirtiness

82 (73)

40 (69)

122 (71)

 Wind

17 (15)

16 (28)

33 (19)

 Contact with dead body

20 (18)

18 (31)

38 (22)

 Dirty water

60 (53)

40 (69)

100 (58)

 Dirty food

63 (56)

42 (72)

105 (61)

 Flies

60 (53)

37 (64)

97 (57)

 Curse

4 (4)

0 (0)

4 (2)

 God’s punishment

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

How can you treat cholera

 Water with salt

5 (4)

1 (2)

6 (4)

 Traditional healer

3 (3)

2 (3)

5 (3)

 Oral rehydration salts

55 (49)

23 (40)

78 (46)

 Hospital

91 (81)

45 (78)

136 (80)

 At home

1 (1)

3 (5)

4 (2)

 Street antibiotics

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 Drugstore

6 (5)

7 (12)

13 (8)

 Prayer/pastor

2 (2)

4 (7)

6 (4)

Total

113

58

171