Research Article
Practice and Associated Factors among Adult Residents towards Traditional Eye Medicine in Gondar City, North West Ethiopia
Table 2
Distribution of traditional eye medicine use in study participants among adult residents in Gondar city, North West Ethiopia, 2017.
| | Variables | Category | Traditional eye medicine practice (n (%)) |
| | | | Yes (total = 73) | No (total = 527) |
| | Age (in a year) | 18–24 | 11 (15%) | 139 (26.4%) | | 25–30 | 16 (21.9%) | 165 (31.3%) | | 30–40 | 20 (27.5%) | 120 (22.8%) | | 41–88 | 26 (35.6%) | 103 (19.5%) |
| | Sex | Male | 36 (49.3%) | 210 (39.8%) | | Female | 37 (50.7%) | 317 (60.2%) |
| | Marital status | Married | 48 (65.8%) | 259 (49.1%) | | Unmarried | 25 (34.2%) | 268 (50.9%) |
| | Educational status | Illiterate | 18 (24.7%) | 51 (9.7%) | | Read and write | 19 (26%) | 80 (15.2%) | | Primary school | 10 (13.7%) | 79 (15%) | | Secondary school | 12 (16.4%) | 119 (22.6%) | | College and above | 14 (19.2%) | 198 (37.6%) |
| | Religion | Christian | 57 (78.1%) | 482 (91.5%) | | Muslim | 16 (22.9) | 45 (8.5%) |
| | Occupation | House wife | 14 (19.2%) | 95 (15.6%) | | Student | 15 (20.5%) | 82 (18%) | | Merchant | 13 (17.8%) | 102 (19.4%) | | Employed | 14 (19.2%) | 189 (35.9%) | | Others | 17 (23.3%) | 59 (11.2%) |
| | Income | High income | 43 (58.9%) | 383 (72.7%) | | Low income | 30 (41.1%) | 144 (27.3%) |
| | Community leadership role | Yes | 21 (28.8%) | 94 (17.8%) | | No | 52 (71.2%) | 433 (82.2%) |
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