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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if no how many times had syptoms (numsymp)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 46

Invalid: 357

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 68

End: 68

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

If Q 3.3(firstsymp); Was this the first time you've had these symptoms?=no, how many times have you had these symptoms?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Once	6	13%
2	Twice	10	21.7%
3	3 times or more	21	45.7%
4	Continuously since onset	9	19.6%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		357

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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