Research Article
Awareness of Oral Cancer in a Northwestern Nigerian State: Assessing the Knowledge, Opinion, and Practice of Traditional Healers and Herbalists
Table 1
Sociodemographic chracteristics of respondents.
| Characteristic | Frequency () | Percentage (%) |
| Age group (years) | | | 30–39 | 3 | 14.3 | 40–49 | 9 | 42.9 | 50–59 | 6 | 28.6 | 60 and above | 3 | 14.3 | Gender | | | Male | 20 | 95.2 | Female | 1 | 4.8 | Marital status | | | Married | 18 | 85.7 | Single | 1 | 4.8 | Divorced | 1 | 4.8 | Widowed | 1 | 4.8 | Educational qualification | | | Quranic | 13 | 61.9 | Primary | — | — | Secondary | 6 | 28.6 | Tertiary | 2 | 9.5 | Ethnicity | | | Hausa | 17 | 81.0 | Others | 4 | 19.0 | Nationality | | | Nigerian | 19 | 90.5 | Non-Nigerian | 2 | 9.5 |
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