Table 5 Attributed causes of disability and health-seeking behaviours
From: Childhood disability in rural Niger: a population-based assessment using the Key Informant Method
Emotional (n = 31) | Physical (n = 253) | Visual (n = 43) | Hearing (n = 133) | Cognitive (n = 338) | Epilepsy (n = 64) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Attributed causes | ||||||||||||
Genetic/born this way | 10 | 32.3 | 103 | 40.7 | 20 | 46.5 | 30 | 22.6 | 171 | 50.6 | 16 | 25.0 |
From trauma/ injury | 3 | 9.7 | 19 | 7.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2.7 | 2 | 3.1 |
From illness | 12 | 38.7 | 97 | 38.3 | 10 | 23.3 | 74 | 55.6 | 110 | 32.5 | 32 | 50.0 |
Act of God/ supernatural | 4 | 12.9 | 28 | 11.1 | 8 | 18.6 | 19 | 14.3 | 41 | 12.1 | 12 | 18.8 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown | 2 | 6.5 | 4 | 1.6 | 5 | 11.6 | 6 | 4.5 | 7 | 2.1 | 2 | 3.1 |
Health seeking | ||||||||||||
Has seen medical doctor | 19 | 61.3 | 170 | 67.2 | 18 | 40.0 | 55 | 41.4 | 155 | 45.9 | 45 | 45.0 |
Medical services helpfula | 5 | 26.3 | 53 | 31.2 | 4 | 22.2 | 20 | 36.4 | 40 | 25.8 | 19 | 42.2 |
Reasons for not seeking medical adviceb | ||||||||||||
Do not need/Not useful | 8 | 66.7 | 60 | 72.3 | 15 | 0.6 | 54 | 69.2 | 132 | 72.1 | 16 | 84.2 |
Too expensive | 0 | 0 | 28 | 33.7 | 10 | 0.4 | 25 | 32.1 | 62 | 33.9 | 4 | 21.1 |
Services not available | 1 | 8.3 | 1 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.6 | 4 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 |
Too far/no transportation | 0 | 0 | 13 | 15.7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6.4 | 20 | 10.9 | 3 | 15.8 |
No time | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.3 | 2 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 |
Do not know where to go | 2 | 16.7 | 6 | 7.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 3 | 3.8 | 20 | 10.9 | 2 | 10.5 |
Other | 1 | 8.3 | 1 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.3 | 2 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 |