Table 2.
Distribution of participant characteristics
| Continuous participant characteristics | Patients with TB | Community members | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Age in years (median, range) | 37 | (18 - 79) | 34 | (18 - 69) |
| Income | Thousand Baht per month (median, range) | 10 | (0 - 90) | 10 | (1 - 100) |
| Categorical participant characteristics | N | (%) | N | (%) | |
| Gender | Male | 317 | (66.0) | 146 | (48.7) |
| Female | 163 | (34.0) | 154 | (51.3) | |
| Religion | Buddhist | 319 | (66.7) | 244 | (81.3) |
| Muslim | 159 | (33.3) | 56 | (18.7) | |
| Education | Less than or no primary school | 160 | (33.4) | 61 | (20.3) |
| Completed primary school | 191 | (39.8) | 103 | (34.3) | |
| Completed secondary school | 129 | (26.9) | 136 | (45.3) | |
| TB knowledge* | Infected from family/others | 87 | (18.1) | 42 | (14.0) |
| (Cause) | Work hard | 71 | (14.8) | 3 | (1.0) |
| Smoking/drinking | 162 | (33.8) | 158 | (52.7) | |
| Heredity | 20 | (4.2) | 25 | (8.3) | |
| Weak body | 82 | (17.1) | 27 | (9.0) | |
| Eat or drink with patient | 20 | (4.2) | 43 | (14.3) | |
| Other | 38 | (7.9) | 2 | (0.7) | |
| TB knowledge† | Eat/drink | 291 | (61.9) | 109 | (36.7) |
| (Transmission) | Touch | 41 | (8.7) | 32 | (10.8) |
| Sex | 46 | (9.8) | 16 | (5.4) | |
| Cough/sneeze | 396 | (84.3) | 224 | (75.4) | |
| Other | 64 | (13.6) | 50 | (16.8) | |
| TB knowledge | Curable | 463 | (96.5) | 231 | (77.0) |
| (Cure) | Not curable | 17 | (3.5) | 69 | (23.0) |
| TB knowledge† | TB increase AIDS | 242 | (50.4) | 142 | (47.3) |
| (TB/HIV) | AIDS increases TB | 346 | (72.1) | 219 | (73.0) |
| AIDS/TB appear similar | 339 | (70.6) | 186 | (62.0) | |
| Knew person | Did not know person with TB | 211 | (70.3) | ||
| with TB | Knew person with TB (lived) | 51 | (17.0) | ||
| Knew person with TB (died) | 38 | (12.7) | |||
| HIV status‡ | Never tested | 292 | (60.8) | ||
| Previously tested negative | 115 | (24.0) | |||
| Previously tested positive | 73 | (15.2) | |||
| Symptoms§ | Cough | 236 | (49.2) | ||
| Hemoptysis | 116 | (24.2) | |||
| Weight loss | 59 | (12.3) | |||
| Fever and/or extrapulmonary only | 55 | (11.5) | |||
| No symptoms | 14 | (2.9) | |||
* Exclusive or † non-exclusive categories
§ Cough and hemoptysis categories may also include patients with additional symptoms such as weight loss, fever, or EPTB (extrapulmonary TB); Weight loss excludes cough but may include other symptoms (e.g. fever and/or EPTB); Fever and EPTB includes patients with only those symptoms (no cough or weight loss).
‡Self-reported