Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics and distribution of the various time delays among the participants*
| Characteristic | Patients, No. (%) | ||
| Age, mean (SD), y | 30.7 (9.4) | ||
| Sex | |||
| Male | 132 (57.1) | ||
| Female | 99 (42.9) | ||
| Hospital admission status | |||
| Hospitalised | 72 (25.5) | ||
| Outpatients | 159 (74.5) | ||
| Highest education level attained | |||
| None | 21 (9.1) | ||
| Primary school | 118 (51.1) | ||
| Secondary | 58 (25.1) | ||
| Post-secondary | 13 (5.6) | ||
| Tertiary | 21 (9.1) | ||
| No. of persons in Household | |||
| (1) | 24 (10.4) | ||
| (>1) | 207 (89.6) | ||
| Weekly Alcohol consumption | |||
| Daily | 35 (15.2) | ||
| Sometimes | 47 (20.3) | ||
| Rarely | 26 (11.3) | ||
| Never | 123 (53.2) | ||
| Main Occupation | |||
| Subsistence farming | 28 (12.1) | ||
| Unskilled workers | 115 (49.8) | ||
| Skilled workers | 56 (24.2) | ||
| Students | 20 (8.7) | ||
| Unemployed | 12 (5.2) | ||
| Medical expenditure on TB related symptoms, US $ | |||
| 0–29 | 123 (53.2) | ||
| >29 | 108 (46.8) | ||
| Distance from home to treatment centre, km | |||
| <25 | 197 (85.3) | ||
| >25 | 34 (14.7) | ||
| Distribution of the time delays | |||
| Patient delay | Health service delay | Total delay | |
| Median, wk | 1.0 | 9.0 | 12.0 |
| Interquartile Range, wk | 0.9–4.0 | 5.3–15.3 | 8.0–20.0 |
| Delay >2 wk | 70 (30.3) | 207 (89.6) | 231 (100) |
| Delay >4 wk | 40 (14.7) | 188 (81.4) | 210 (90.9) |
*Values are number % unless otherwise indicated