Research Article
Danger Signs of Childhood Pneumonia: Caregiver Awareness and Care Seeking Behavior in a Developing Country
Table 1
Descriptive summary of study respondents.
| Variables | (%) |
| Maternal age (years) | | 20–30 | 158 (35.6) | 31–40 | 120 (27.0) | >40 | 166 (37.4) | Maternal educational attainment | | Tertiary | 76 (16.5) | Secondary | 107 (23.2) | Primary | 142 (20.5) | None | 136 (29.2) | Ever heard of pneumonia | | Yes | 440 (94.8) | No | 24 (5.2) | Socioeconomic class | | Upper | 103 (22.1) | Middle | 83 (17.8) | Lower | 280 (60.1) | Number of living children | | None | 14 (3.3) | 1–4 | 246 (57.7) | >4 | 166 (39.0) | Knowledge of WHO/UNICEF danger sign | | None | 162 (34.8) | At least 1 | 304 (65.2) | Experiences of pneumonia danger signs in child | | Yes | 232 (49.8) | No | 180 (38.6) | Do not know | 54 (11.6) | Age of child at experience of danger sign | | <1 yrs | 118 (55.9) | 1-2 yrs | 81 (38.4) | 3–5 yrs | 12 (5.7) |
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