Research Article
Prevalence and Determinants of Appropriate Health Seeking Behaviour among Known Diabetics: Results from a Community-Based Survey
Table 2
Current pattern of health seeking behavior.
| Characteristics | | % |
| Method of DM being diagnosed | | | Medical screening at community level | 30 | 6.5 | Medical screening at health facilities | 124 | 27.0 | Own initiatives | 122 | 26.5 | Medical checkup (preemployment/hajj) | 36 | 7.8 | Getting treatment for symptom of DM | 69 | 15.0 | Admitted to hospital due to complication of DM | 47 | 10.2 | Medical screening 6 weeks postpartum. | 32 | 7.0 | Seeking treatment upon diagnosis | | | Yes | 376 | 81.7 | No | 84 | 18.3 | Early treatment at diagnosis | | | Within 24 hours | 222 | 48.3 | After 24 hours | 154 | 33.4 | Reason for not/delay in seeking treatment upon diagnosis | | | Financial constraint (transport, medicine, and consultation) | 46 | 10.0 | No time | 114 | 24.8 | Distance from health facilities | 26 | 5.7 | Considered that symptoms were not serious enough for treatment | 27 | 5.9 | Self-treatment | 206 | 44.8 | No treatment | 5 | 1.1 | >2 reasons | 36 | 7.8 | Utilizing health facilities | | | Government hospital | 263 | 57.2 | Private hospital | 23 | 5.0 | Government clinic | 114 | 24.8 | Private clinic | 13 | 2.8 | Pharmacy/Chinese shop | 7 | 1.5 | Traditional healers | — | — | Homeopathy healers | 2 | 0.4 | Self-treatment | 30 | 6.5 | No treatment | 8 | 1.7 | Using modern treatment | | | Oral diabetic agent | 308 | 67.0 | Insulin | 43 | 9.3 | Oral diabetic agent and insulin | 53 | 11.5 | Traditional medicine | 4 | 0.9 | Homeopathy medicine | 3 | 0.7 | Food supplement | 7 | 1.5 | Medicine bought from pharmacy | 3 | 0.7 | Medicine bought from Chinese shop | 6 | 1.3 | Self-treatment | 23 | 5.0 | No treatment | 10 | 2.2 | Health seeking behaviour | | | Appropriate | 395 | 85.9 | Inappropriate | 65 | 14.1 |
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