STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Chilumba, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Karonga

Malawi, 2014 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-KA-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor MiaCrampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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reason 1 care giver explains stroke (reasstrcare1)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 83

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 247

End: 247

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

What reason does the relative/care provider give to explain why the participant had a stroke? reason 1

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	High BP	7	8.4%
2	God's will	1	1.2%
3	Witch craft	0	0%
4	A bleed in brain	0	0%
5	A clot in brain	0	0%
6	Other (specify)	22	26.5%
7	No care provider	7	8.4%
8	Does not know	46	55.4%
9	Unable to respond	0	0%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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