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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Karonga HDSS

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reason 3 not taking medication (reasnomeds3)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 83

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 181

End: 181

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If patient is NOT taking medication for a previously diagnosed condition, indicate why. Skip if no previous diag.
3

Categories

Value	Category
1	Stock out at clinic when last visited
2	No money for transport to clinic to collect meds
3	No treatment routinely available at clinic
4	Don't believe in medication
5	Side effects
6	Using alternative medication from healer
7	Too sick to attend clinic
8	Other
9	Missing
Sysmiss

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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