Causes of Delayed Care Seeking for Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media at a Rwandan Tertiary Hospital

Table 5

Barriers to early care seeking.

		Presentation time
		late n=97	early n=12	Total	p-value
Service	Yes	33 (34%)	3 (25%)	36 (33%)	0.747
	No	64 (66%)	9 (75%)	73 (67%)
Financial	Yes	22 (22.7%)	3 (25%)	25 (22.9%)	0.988
	No	75 (77.3%)	9 (75%)	84 (77.1%)
Knowledge	Yes	88 (90.7%)	5 (41.7%)	93 (85.3%)	0.001
	No	9 (9.3%)	7 (58.3%)	16(14.7%)