Coping with uncertainty during healthcare-seeking in Lao PDR

Table 1 Description of the demographics of the study sample

	Women	Men	Caretaker during illness	Nurses	Doctors	VHV/	Drug vendors	Traditional practitioners	Total
	Women	Men	Caretaker during illness	Nurses	Doctors	TBA^a	Drug vendors	Traditional practitioners	Total
Focus group discussions (participants)	6 (46)	6 (36)	-	8 (29)^b	-	6 (43)^c	-	-	26 (154)
Individual interviews	-	-	11	-	6	-	7	11	35

^a Village Health Volunteer (VHV) and Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA).
^b Nurses were selected from 2 district hospitals and 6 health centers. The names of the districts are kept anonymous since there is only one district hospital in each district and we are presenting data on delays in received care.
^c The VHV and TBA represented 22 different villages.

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