Healthcare and Socio-economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Patients with Diabetes in Selected Counties in Kenya, GECO-Kenya

Kenya, , 2021 - 2023
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

Gershim Asiki,MD,Phd

CSV JSON

Too expensive-cannot afford (q3p11c_1)

Data file: GECO_FinalData1

Overview

vald 154

invd 346

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 1

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Please indicate the main reasons why you are unable to obtain the medications/insulin during the [COVID] period? (multiple responses allowed)
Tafadhali taja sababu kuu kwa nini hukuweza kupata dawa/insulini katika kipindi cha COVID (majibu Zaidi ya moja yanaruhusiwa)
(a) too expensive-cannot afford
(a) ghali sana-sikuweza kumudu

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	20	13%
1	Yes	134	87%
Sysmiss		346

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question pretext

Medications
Has this changed in [COVID] period = the time you were most affected [if applicable]

Question post text

N/A

Interviewer instructions

N/A

Description

Text

The question was asked to patients with type 2 diabetes to indicate that one of the main reasons they were unable to obtain their medications or insulin during the COVID period was that it was too expensive and they could not afford it.

Universe

Patients with type 2 diabetes