The performance of COVID-19 Surveillance System as timely containment strategy in Western Oromia, Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Community experience and practice assessment toward COVID-19 in selected towns, west Oromia, Ethiopia, Aug 2020, (n=436)

Variables	Description	Number	%
Experience during feeling ill health	Visit health facility	360	82.6
	Go to pray	47	10.8
	Purchase some medicine	23	5.3
	Eat foods believed to be a remedy	4	0.9
	Other^*	2	0.5
Access to health services affected by this pandemic	Yes	182	41.7
Access to health services affected by this pandemic	No	254	58.3
Using health facilities during the pandemic	Yes	239	54.8
Using health facilities during the pandemic	No	197	45.2
Willing to be isolated if contract COVID-19	Yes	409	93.8
Willing to be isolated if contract COVID-19	No	27	6.2
Practices if contract COVID-19	I will take locally advised foods, garlic, ginger, soups, etc.	227	52.1
	I will go to the hospital/health unit	400	91.7
	I will go to the neighborhood nurse	46	10.7
	I will buy medicines at the market	19	4.4
	I will look for the traditional healer	12	2.8
	I would stay in quarantine	161	36.9
Action to be taken on suspecting person with COVID-19 symptoms	Report to local health	256	58.7
	Call 8335 or local call center	169	38.8
	Do not know or Do nothing	11	2.5
heard someone died of COVID-19	Yes	13	3.0
heard someone died of COVID-19	No	423	97.0
Heard neighbor died of COVID-19	Yes	9	2.1
Heard neighbor died of COVID-19	No	427	97.9

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