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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Reference ID

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

Producer(s)

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

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Karonga HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Nov 19, 2025

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type of traditional medicine (typetradmed)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 47

Invalid: 356

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 131

End: 131

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If yes(visittradheal);Did you visit the traditional healer's place after the onset of symptoms?
, Type of intervention (give details)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Oral medication	20	42.6%
2	Bath	3	6.4%
3	Inhalation	0	0%
4	Topical	9	19.1%
5	Other	3	6.4%
6	Cutting	12	25.5%
Sysmiss		356

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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