A comparative analysis of treatment seeking behaviour with and without medical facility among people in rural, suburban and urban population towards cancer, aids, syphilis and sexually transmitted diseases using random sampling method comparison with existing survey

To compare urban, sub-urban and rural populations towards treatment seekingbehaviour with and without medical facility among people in rural, suburban and urban population towards aliments like cancer, AIDS, syphilis and sexually transmitted diseases (STD) using random sampling technique. Descriptive analysis was used to create an online survey questionnaire to obtain data. Data was collected among rural (21%), urban (48.9%) and sub-urban (30.1%) populations. Total number of samples (N= 405) consists of three groups and samples and were analysed by a random sampling method. Sample size was calculated by maintaining G-power 80%, α=0.05, and a confidence interval of 95%. Comparative analysis of treatment seeking behaviour was found to be 48.9% among urban, 30.1% among sub-urban and 21% among rural population. The pearson chi square value was found to be 2.67. Families from urban areas (48.9%) recognized the importance of health-care treatment and preferred treatments in medical facilities when compared to other two populations.