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 3 paticipant explains stroke (reasstrpart3)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 83

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 252

End: 252

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

What reason does the participant give to explain why they had a stroke/TIA?, reason 3

Categories

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