Hepatitis B attitude items | N | % |
---|---|---|
Have you ever thought you could get Hepatitis B? | Â | Â |
Yes* | 138 | 35.4 |
No | 252 | 64.6 |
What was your reaction when you found that you have Hepatitis B? | Â | Â |
Fear* | 138 | 35.4 |
Shame | 104 | 26.7 |
Surprise | 36 | 9.2 |
Sadness | 112 | 28.7 |
Who did you talk to about your illness? | Â | Â |
Physician | 67 | 17.1 |
Spouse | 160 | 41.0 |
Parents | 55 | 14.1 |
Child | 24 | 6.2 |
Other relatives | 10 | 2.6 |
Friends | 70 | 17.9 |
No one¥ | 04 | 1.0 |
What did you do when you knew that you have symptoms of Hepatitis B? | Â | Â |
Went to health facility* | 142 | 36.4 |
Went to a Hakeem | 80 | 20.5 |
Went to a Homeopath | 50 | 12.9 |
Went to a traditional healer | 118 | 30.3 |
When you had symptoms of Hepatitis B, at what stage you came to the health facility? | Â | Â |
Own treatment fails | 184 | 47.2 |
After 3–4 weeks of the appearance of symptoms | 95 | 24.2 |
Soon as I realize the symptoms are of Hepatitis B* | 104 | 26.78 |
Will not go to physician | 07 | 1.8 |
How expensive do you think is the diagnosis and treatment of Hepatitis B? | Â | Â |
Free | 1 | 0.3 |
Reasonable | 33 | 8.5 |
Somewhat expensive | 137 | 35.1 |
Expensive | 182 | 46.7 |
Don’t know¥ | 37 | 9.5 |
What worries you most after you diagnosed with Hepatitis B | Â | Â |
Fear of death | 94 | 24.1 |
Fear of disease spread to family | 53 | 13.6 |
Cost of treatment | 71 | 18.2 |
Isolation from the society¥ | 172 | 44.1 |