Table 6 Attitudes and treatment during Ebola
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) | |||||||
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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 (%) | |
During the Ebola outbreak, did your community change how they acted towards anyone/any groups of people? | |||||||||
Yes (who and how described below) | 206 (78%)** | 96 (33%)** | 302 (55%) | 338 (51%)** | 150 (23%) | 488 (37%) | 23 (55%)** | 6 (9%) | 29 (27%) |
No | 59 (22%) †† | 192 (67%) †† | 251 (45%) | 321 (49%) †† | 511 (77%) | 832 (63%) | 19 (45%) †† | 58 (91%) | 77 (73%) |
Which groups of people were treated differently? | |||||||||
Orphaned children whose parents died because of Ebola | 149 (73%)** | 37 (38%) | 186 (62%) | 119 (35%) | 86 (57%) | 205 (42%) | 3 (13%) | 2 (33%) | 5 (17%) |
Relatives of people who died because of Ebola | 24 (12%)** | 15 (15%)** | 39 (13%) | 16 (5%) | 4 (3%) | 20 (4%) | 1 (4%) | 1 (17%) | 2 (7%) |
Survivors of Ebola | 14 (7%)** | 18 (19%)** | 32 (11%) | 18 (5%) | 7 (5%) | 25 (5%) | 8 (35%)** | 1 (17%) | 9 (31%) |
Relatives of survivors of Ebola | 0 (0%) | 21 (22%)** | 21 (7%) | 3 (1%) | 4 (3%) | 7 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
Health workers | 5 (2%) | 1 (1%) | 6 (2%) | 26 (8%) | 19 (13%) | 45 (9%) | 2 (9%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (7%) |
Persons with disabilities | 7 (3%)* | 0 (0%) | 7 (2%) | 89 (26%)** | 1 (1%) | 90 (18%) | 3 (13%)* | 0 (0%) | 3 (10%) |
Sick people | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 21 (6%) | 0 (0%) | 21 (4%) | 4 (17%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (14%) |
How were they treated differently? | |||||||||
They were not allowed to return home | 94 (46%)** | 28 (29%) | 122 (41%) | 97 (28%) | 85 (58%) | 182 (37%) | 2 (9%) | 1 (25%) | 3 (11%) |
They were isolated in the community | 72 (35%)** | 24 (25%)** | 96 (32%) | 90 (26%)** | 13 (9%) | 103 (21%) | 7 (30%)** | 2 (50%) | 9 (33%) |
They were treated as an outsider | 23 (11%)** | 10 (10%)** | 33 (11%) | 61 (18%)** | 3 (2%) | 32 (7%) | 12 (52%)** | 0 (0%) | 12 (44%) |
They were rejected and shunned by others or treated as inferior | 4 (2%) | 4 (4%) | 8 (3%) | 29 (9%)** | 3 (2%) | 32 (7%) | 1 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (4%) |
They were not treated fairly | 6 (3%) | 22 (23%) | 28 (9%) | 28 (8%) | 22 (15%) | 50 (10%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (25%) | 1 (4%) |