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Table 4 Treatment seeking for TB symptoms among women and men in Non-LDFU group

From: Explaining patient delay in healthcare seeking and loss to diagnostic follow-up among patients with presumptive tuberculosis in Tanzania: a mixed-methods study

Non-LDFU women n = 22

Non-LDFU men n = 28

How reporteda

How reporteda

Categorya

Total reported %

Spont %

Probe %

Most important %

Mean Prominenceb

Total reported%

Spont %

Probe %

Most Important %

Mean Prominenceb

Home remedies

86.3

54.5

31.8

9.1

1.6

75.0

32.1

43.0

14.3

1.5

Pharmacy

81.8

40.9

40.9

27.3

2.0

96.4

75.0

21.4

28.6

2.6

Hospital

68.2

36.4

31.8

4.6

1.2

71.4

50.0

21.4

7.1

1.4

Traditional healer

81.8

36.4

45.5

22.7

1.7

67.9

39.3

28.6

32.1

2.0

Religious healer

59.1

13.6

45.5

9.1

1.0

39.3

3.6

35.7

3.6

0.5

Dispensary

40.9

18.1

22.7

0

0.5

42.8

7.1

35.7

3.6

0.6

TB clinic

22.8

4.6

18.2

9.1

0.5

21.4

3.6

18.0

0

0.3

  1. Non-LDFU non- loss to diagnostic follow-up, a Columns indicate percentage of reported categories and whether a category was identified as most troubling; b Mean prominence based on values assigned to each reported category (0 = not reported, 1 = reported after probing, 2 = reported spontaneously 3 = identified as most troubling 4 = most troubling and reported after probing 5 = most troubling and reported spontaneously