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Table 5 Time to seeking care for the last ill member of the household in the previous 2 weeks by cause of illness, age-group and gender; mortality and health survey, MSF Walikale project, 2017

From: Mortality and health survey, Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017: an example of the use of survey data for humanitarian program planning

 

Same day

2 to 7 days

Over 8 days

 

n

1% (95% CI)

n

1% (95% CI)

n

1% (95% CI)

Cause of illness

      

< 0.001

 Fever/ malaria

113

47.3 (40.6–54.1)

122

51.0 (44.7–57.3)

4

1.7 (0.6–4.3)

 

 Respiratory infection

17

37.0 (21.7–55.3)

28

60.9 (44.2–75.3)

1

2.2 (0.3–13.8)

 

 Diarrhoea

14

41.2 (26.7–57.4)

20

58.8 (42.6–73.3)

   

 Pregnancy related

3

50.0 (15.8–84.2)

2

33.3 (7.8–74.7)

1

16.7 (2.1–65.4)

 

 Trauma/ accident

3

50.0 (15.8–84.2)

3

50.0 (15.8–84.2)

   

 Other infection

5

23.8 (9.8–47.3)

12

57.1 (30.9–79.9)

4

19.0 (6.0–46.6)

 

 Other

12

23.5 (12.2–40.5)

28

54.9 (36.1–72.4)

11

21.6 (11.1–37.6)

 

Age-group

      

0.075

 Infant

16

53.3 (38.3–67.8)

14

46.7 (32.2 (61.7)

 

0.0

 

 1 to 4 years

55

40.7 (32.8–49.2)

76

56.3 (47.3–64.9)

4

0.3 (0.9–9.2)

 

 5 to 14 years

42

51.2 (38.0–43.7)

38

46.3 (33.3–59.8)

2

2.4 (0.6–10.0)

 

 15 to 60 years

49

35.8 (28.6–43.7)

76

55.5 (47.0–63.6)

12

8.8 (4.6–15.9)

 

 60+ years

5

26.3 (10.7 (51.5)

11

57.9 (36.5–76.7)

3

15.8 (5.4–38.1)

 

Gender

      

0.479

 Male

71

39.4 (31.5–47.9)

97

53.9 (44.9–62.6)

12

6.7 (3.5–12.4)

 

 Female

96

43.0 (36.4–49.9)

118

52.9 (46.4–59.4)

9

4.0 (2.1–7.8)

 
 

167

 

215

 

21

100%