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 paticipant explains stroke (reasstrpart1)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 494

End: 494

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 1

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	High BP	23	13.6%
2	God's will	3	1.8%
3	Witch craft	0	0%
4	A bleed in brain	0	0%
5	A clot in brain	0	0%
6	Other (specify)	21	12.4%
7	No care provider	0	0%
8	Does not know	67	39.6%
9	Unable to respond	55	32.5%

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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