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

Malawi, 2015 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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Reason 1 not taking medication (reasnomeds1)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 7

Invalid: 162

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 483

End: 483

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

If patient is NOT taking medication for a previously diagnosed condition, indicate why. Skip if no previous diag. 1

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Stock out at clinic when last visited	0	0%
2	No money for transport to clinic to collect meds	1	14.3%
3	No treatment routinely available at clinic	1	14.3%
4	Don't believe in medication	0	0%
5	Side effects	1	14.3%
6	Using alternative medication from healer	0	0%
7	Too sick to attend clinic	0	0%
8	Other	4	57.1%
9	Missing	157
Sysmiss		5

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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