Assessment of health care seeking behaviour and its associated factors amongst the residents of a rural community of Kamrup District in Assam: a mixed method study

Background: Healthcare seeking behaviour (HSB) is an important determinant of health outcome. There are multiple socio demographic CI (1.15-3.88)]. Qualitative analysis revealed that participants were multiple barriers such as “Inappropriate disease severity perception”, “Inconvenient OPD timings” amongst host of other barriers. Similarly, “Pro-Active approach of Health Care Workers” was amongst the factors identified as enabler. Conclusions: As health care providers we need to focus on the tribal community and ensure that proper confidence building measures are in place to make sure that the apprehensions are addressed.