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Table 4 Treatment during the Ebola outbreak

From: The Ebola crisis and people with disabilities’ access to healthcare and government services in Liberia

 

A few, or many, cases of Ebola (n=560)

No Ebola cases (n=1343)

Don’t know whether there were any

Ebola cases (n=107)

 

Disabled household n (%)

Non-disabled household n (%)

Total

n (%)

Disabled household

n (%)

Non-disabled household n (%) (reference group)

Total n (%)

Disabled household

n (%)

Non-disabled household

n (%)

Total

n (%)

How did you get treatment during the Ebola outbreak?

 Did not need treatment

9 (3%) ††

88 (31%)**

97 (18%)

99 (15%)

124 (21%)

233 (18%)

3 (7%)

10 (18%)

13 (13%)

 Health facilities

20 (8%)

23 (8%) ††

43 (8%)

77 (12%)

129 (20%)

206 (16%)

18 (42%) ††

7 (12%)

25 (25%)

 Traditional healers

49 (18%)**

15 (5%)

64 (12%)

47 (7%)*

20 (3%)

67 (5%)

2 (5%)

2 (4%)

4 (4%)

 Self-treatment (including pharmacy)/treatment from household

181 (68%)**

146 (51%)

327 (60%)

418 (63%)**

328 (51%)

746 (57%)

10 (23%) †

22 (39%)

32 (32%)

  1. ** p<0.0005 *p<0.005 significant increase in odds †† p<0.0005 †p<0.005 decrease in odds of outcome compared to reference group of Non-disabled households in no Ebola cases area, in multi-level mixed effects logistic regression adjusting for age, sex, education, and wealth quintile and clustering by village