Table 2 Comparison of the number of each category of intervention given with different demographic characteristics and year—relationships between the number provided with each treatment (psychological, social, medication, and those for whom medication with unavailable or unaffordable) and selected independent variables (number in each group: age, sex, residence within Freetown vs the rest, residence within districts with high Ebola endemicity vs the rest, and year 2015 vs 2016) using bivariate negative binomial regressions *p < 0.05

Age groups

 0–14

1.03

0.26

1.20*

0.00090

1.04

0.22

1.22*

0.029

1.15

0.17

 15–17

0.94*

0.019

0.84*

0.0028

0.94

0.083

1.06

0.66

0.94

0.55

 18–24

1.00

0.89

1.02

0.70

0.98

0.35

1.01

0.87

1.00

0.96

 25–34

0.99

0.61

0.96

0.18

0.99

0.48

0.86*

0.0095

1.01

0.86

 35–44

0.99

0.66

0.91*

0.0062

0.99

0.55

0.72*

0.022

1.03

0.61

 45–54

1.00

0.95

0.76*

0.0020

1.00

0.98

1.08

0.52

1.01

0.92

 55–64

1.03

0.56

1.00

0.97

0.90*

0.040

0.92

0.69

0.94

0.67

 65–74

0.96

0.55

1.02

0.90

1.04

0.63

0.99

0.97

0.94

0.69

 75+

1.09

0.31

1.41

0.14

1.17

0.19

0.41

0.081

0.80

0.61

 Unknown

1.07

0.36

1.24

0.19

1.09

0.36

0.60

0.17

0.86

0.61

 Constant

0.68*

< 0.0001

0.27*

0

0.55*

< 0.0001

0.14*

< 0.0001

0.03*

0

 N

231

230

231

190

183

Sex

 Number of males

1.01

0.21

1.03

0.21

1.02

0.18

1.14*

0.046

1.10*

0.022

 Number of females

0.98

0.057

0.96

0.069

0.97*

0.021

0.88*

0.034

0.97

0.31

 Constant

0.66*

 < 0.0001

0.17*

0

0.45*

0

0.10*

0

0.03*

0

 N

206

205

206

165

157

Freetown vs the rest

 Freetown (ref: the rest)

0.27*

0

0.24*

0.00050

0.16*

0

0.02*

 < 0.0001

0.06*

 < 0.0001

 Constant

0.71*

0

0.26*

0

0.52*

0

0.13*

0

0.07*

0

 N

236

235

236

192

184

Ebola—districts with high endemicity vs the rest

 High Ebola endemicity districts (ref: the rest)

0.70*

0.0010

0.78

0.31

0.52*

< 0.0001

0.05*

< 0.0001

1.66

0.18

 Constant

0.74*

< 0.0001

0.26*

0

0.57*

0

0.18*

0

0.05*

0

 Observations

236

235

236

192

184

2015 vs 2016

 2015 (ref: 2016)

1.24

0.090

1.40

0.25

0.91

0.59

3.09*

0.016

0.51

0.13

 Constant

0.63*

< 0.0001

`

0

0.52*

< 0.0001

0.08*

0

0.09*

0

 N

166

164

165

141

139