Healthcare-seeking behaviours of patients with acute respiratory infection: a cross-sectional survey in a rural area of southwest China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to assess the healthcare-seeking behaviour and related factors of people with acute respiratory symptoms in the rural areas of central and western China to estimate the disease burden of influenza more accurately.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Settings

Fifty-two communities/villages in the Wanzhou District, Chongqing, China, a rural area in southwest China, from May 2022 to July 2022.

Participants

The participants were those who had been living in Wanzhou District continuously for more than 6 months and consented to participate.

Outcome measures

A semistructured questionnaire was used to determine the healthcare-seeking behaviour of participants, and the dichotomous response of 'yes' or 'no' was used to assess whether partici

SUBMITTER: Dai P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10875477 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature