Agyepong I A, Manderson L
Dangme West Health Research Centre, Ministry of Health, Dodowa Accra, Ghana.
Acta Trop. 1994 Dec;58(3-4):317-30. doi: 10.1016/0001-706x(94)90025-6.
Qualitative research methods were used in rural and urban areas of the Greater Accra Region to generate data to describe the folk diagnosis, etiology and management of malaria. Respondents defined as fever a set of symptoms loosely concordant with clinical malaria. Primary cause of fever as heat and particularly in rural areas, an understanding of the role of mosquitos in transmitting fever was limited. First- and second-line treatments adopted by caretakers, when either they or their children were sick, involved considerable self-medication with chloroquine and paracetamol. Ethnographic data were supplemented and tested for generalizability through a cross-sectional survey, and the paper discusses this methodological approach.
在大阿克拉地区的农村和城市地区采用了定性研究方法来收集数据，以描述疟疾的民间诊断、病因和治疗情况。受访者将一组与临床疟疾大致相符的症状定义为发烧。发烧的主要原因是受热，特别是在农村地区，人们对蚊子在传播发烧方面的作用了解有限。当看护人自己或他们的孩子生病时，他们采用的一线和二线治疗方法包括大量自行服用氯喹和扑热息痛。通过横断面调查对人种学数据进行补充并测试其普遍性，本文讨论了这种方法论方法。
