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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of febrile children’s caregivers in Guèndembou and Bolodou sub-districts, September–October 2017, Guinea

From: Do memories of the Ebola virus disease outbreak influence post-Ebola health seeking behaviour in Guéckédou district (epicentre) in Guinea? A cross-sectional study of children with febrile illness

   

(N = 398)

Guèndembou (N = 196)

Bolodou (N = 202)

p valuea

Age of respondents

  

< 0·001

 Mean (SD) years

33·9 (13.9)

28·7 (7.2)

 

Sex of child

  

0·021

 Male (%)

89 (45·4%)

115 (56·9%)

 

 Female (%)

107 (55·6%)

87 (43·1%)

 

Age of child

  

0·002

Mean (95% CI) months

28·3 (+/−15·4)

33·3 (+/−16·3)

 

Educational level

  

< 0·001

 None (%)

81 (41·3%)

149 (73·8%)

 

 Incomplete primary school (%)

72 (36·7%)

43 (21·3%)

 

 Primary school or more (%)

43 (22·0%)

10 (4·9%)

 

Marital status

  

0·021

 Married/in union (%)

166 (84·7%)

186 (92·1%)

 

 Not married (%)

30 (15·3%)

16 (7·9%)

 

Number of household members

  

0·072

 Mean (95% CI) persons

7·7 (+/−2·8)

7·2 (+/−2·7)

 

Household property scoreb

   

 Mean (95% CI) points

17·6 (+/−5·1)

16·0 (+/−4·7)

0·001

 Above median (≥15.0) (%)

115 (58·7%)

74 (36·6%)

< 0·001

Source of income

  

< 0·.001

 Farming (%)

167 (85·2%)

195 (96·5%)

 

 Street vendor (%)

17 (8·7%)

2 (1·0%)

 

 Other (%)

12 (6·1%)

5 (2·5%)

 
  1. aChi-square test or student t-test
  2. bFull score of the household property score was 62 points, and median of all the studied households was 15 points