Understanding Lay Perspectives: Care Options for STD Treatment in Lusaka, Zambia

Understanding lay persons' perceptions of STD care is critical in the design and implementation of appropriate health services. Using 20 unstructured group interviews, 10 focus group discussions and 4 STD case simulations in selected sub-populations in Lusaka, we investigated lay person perspec...

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Published in:Health policy and planning 1997-09, Vol.12 (3), p.248-252
Main Authors: Msiska, Roland, Nangawe, Eli, Mulenga, Doreen, Sichone, Moses, Kamanga, Joseph, Kwapa, Pascal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude to Health
Attitudes
Cost of Illness
Developing Countries
Female
Focus Groups
Health administration
Health Care
Health planning
Health policy
Helpseeking
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Interviews as Topic
Lay people
Male
Medicine, African Traditional
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Patient Participation
Perception
Population
Research reports
Self Care
Sexually transmitted diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - therapy
Social costs
Treatment Methods
Venereal Diseases
Zambia
Zambia - epidemiology
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Summary:Understanding lay persons' perceptions of STD care is critical in the design and implementation of appropriate health services. Using 20 unstructured group interviews, 10 focus group discussions and 4 STD case simulations in selected sub-populations in Lusaka, we investigated lay person perspectives of STD services. The study revealed a large diversity of care options for STD in the communities, including self-care, traditional healers, medicine sold in the markets and streets, injections administered in the compounds, private clinics, health centres and hospital. The factors identified as influencing care seeking behaviour are: lay referral mechanisms, social cost, availability of care options, economics, beliefs, stigma and quality of care as perceived by the users.
ISSN:0268-1080
1460-2237
DOI:10.1093/heapol/12.3.248