Table 2: Diagnostic attitudes of respondents to acute otitis media or otitis externa, Togo, 2020.

 

N

number

Percentage

The diagnosis of acute otitis media is clinical

357

   

Yes

 

353

98.9

 No

 

4

1.1

What sign(s) made you diagnose acute otitis media?

353

   

Otalgia

 

335

94.9

Otorrhea

 

333

94.3

Congestive/inflammatory eardrum

 

302

85.6

Fever

 

293

83

 Hypoacusis

 

188

53.3

Normal eardrum

 

5

1.4

Perforated eardrum

 

1

0.3

The diagnosis of diffuse otitis externa is clinical

357

   

Yes

 

351

98.3

Don't know

 

6

1.7

What sign(s) made you diagnose diffuse otitis externa?

351

   

Otalgia

 

349

99.4

Inflammatory external auditory canal

 

249

70.9

Normal eardrum

 

201

57.3

Fever

 

45

12.8

Otorrhea

 

5

1.4

Ear pruritus

 

1

0.3