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HB Hermann Badolo
AB Aristide R. Bado
HH Hervé Hien
NM Nicolas Méda
AS A. Sathiya Susuman
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In this study, there were two dependent variables. The first was constructed from self-reported information collected in face-to-face interviews. Reports of fever were classified into two categories: those reported to have had a fever in the last four weeks preceding the survey and those not reported to have a fever in the last four weeks preceding the survey. This outcome variable, therefore, includes two modalities: presence of fever = 1 and absence of fever = 0.

The second variable was appropriate healthcare-seeking. Seeking appropriate healthcare has been defined as seeking healthcare from all public or private health facilities, private doctors and community health workers but excluding non-medical care, pharmacies, shops and traditional healers [37].

These two outcome variables were based on self-reported information collected in face-to-face interviews.

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