Table 2 Services utilization and self-evaluated knowledge and skills on traditional medicine by sex
| Â | Male | Female | Total | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Source of Traditional medicine information | N | % | N | % | N | % | Â |
— Community health workers | 99 | 93.4 | 172 | 88.7 | 271 | 90.3 | 0.18 |
— Traditional healers | 8 | 7.5 | 18 | 9.3 | 26 | 8.7 | 0.61 |
— TV/paper | 15 | 14.2 | 14 | 7.2 | 29 | 9.7 | 0.89 |
— Relatives, neighbors or friends | 25 | 23.6 | 54 | 27.8 | 79 | 26.3 | 0.42 |
Traditional Medicine Package Use | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Â |
— Frequency of use (times/year) | 6.74 | 5.3 | 5.73 | 3.5 | 6.1 | 4.2 | 0.03 |
— Frequency of refiling the traditional medicine | 3.03 | 2.6 | 2.81 | 2.2 | 2.89 | 2.3 | 0.22 |
Self-evaluated knowledge on traditional medicine use | N | % | N | % | N | % | Â |
— Very good | 15 | 14.2 | 13 | 6.7 | 28 | 9.3 | 0.01 |
— Good | 50 | 47.2 | 94 | 48.5 | 144 | 48.0 | |
— Moderate | 27 | 25.5 | 71 | 36.6 | 98 | 32.7 | |
— Poor | 11 | 10.4 | 16 | 8.3 | 27 | 9.0 | |
— Very poor | 3 | 2.8 |  |  | 3 | 1.0 | |
Self-evaluated skills on traditional medicine use | N | % | N | % | N | % | 0.14 |
— Very Competent | 16 | 15.1 | 16 | 8.3 | 32 | 10.7 | |
— Fairly Competent | 48 | 45.3 | 93 | 47.9 | 141 | 47.0 | |
— Moderately Competent | 31 | 29.3 | 63 | 32.5 | 94 | 31.3 | |
— Little competent | 8 | 7.6 | 21 | 10.8 | 29 | 9.7 | |
— Not at all Competent | 3 | 2.8 | 1 | 0.5 | 4 | 1.3 | |
Perceived health improvement by traditional medical use | N | % | N | % | N | % | Â |
— Completely cured | 15 | 14.2 | 19 | 9.8 | 34 | 11.3 | <0.001 |
— Much better but not completely cured | 67 | 63.2 | 132 | 68.0 | 199 | 66.3 | |
— A little bit better | 20 | 18.9 | 22 | 11.3 | 42 | 14.0 | |
— Not better but not worse | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 3.6 | 7 | 2.3 | |
— Unknown | 4 | 3.8 | 14 | 7.2 | 18 | 6.0 | |