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Table 4 Self-reported symptoms in four week recall period, stratified by user groups

From: Coping with ill-health: health care facility, chemist or medicinal plants? Health-seeking behaviour in a Kenyan wetland

 

Smallholder farmers (n = 106)

Commercial farmers (n = 95)

Pastoralists (n = 99)

Service sector workers (n = 100)

Total (n = 400)

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

Self-reported symptoms

 Abdominal complaints

39

36.8

31

32.6

27

27.3

32

32.0

129

32.3

 Fever

42

39.6

38

40.0

39

39.4

41

41.0

160

40.0

 Skin irritation

21

19.8

23

24.2

13

13.1

19

19.0

76

19.0

 Poor eye condition

20

18.9

10

10.5

20

20.2

11

11.0

61

15.3