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Table 4 Percent of women with no formal schooling, by literacy group, who experienced each healthcare-seeking barrier

From: Literacy and healthcare-seeking among women with low educational attainment: analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2011 Nepal demographic and health survey

Outcome

Total N

Percent of total

Literate group

Illiterate group

P valuea

Perceived “getting permission” to be a big problem

4,875

16.9%

12.0%

17.5%

0.006

Perceived “not wanting to go alone” to be a big problem

4,875

69.3%

66.0%

69.7%

0.159

Had a say in decision-making regarding one’s own health

4,444

62.4%

74.0%

61.0%

< 0.0001

Sought care for STI/STI symptoms

597

41.3%

61.2%

38.7%

0.003

  1. aP values comparing proportions in the two groups are Pearson, survey design-corrected p values.