Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of patients with tuberculosis and healthy referents
| |
Patients with TB |
Healthy referents |
t or χ2 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 140) | (n = 130) | (p value) | ||
| Demographic Variables |
n (%) |
n (%) |
|
|
| Age |
|
|
|
|
| |
< 30 year-old |
19 (13.6) |
27 (21.6) |
|
| |
30 to 39 year-old |
21 (15.0) |
14 (11.2) |
|
| |
40 to 49 year-old |
31 (22.1) |
27 (21.6) |
|
| |
50+ year-old |
69 (49.3) |
57 (45.6) |
|
| |
missing |
0 (0) |
5 |
|
| |
Mean (SD); Range |
50.13 (18.62); 11~89 |
47.91 (18.94); 11~83 |
t (263) = 0.963 |
| |
|
|
|
(p = 0.337) |
| Gender |
|
|
|
|
| |
Male |
99 (70.7) |
86 (66.2) |
|
| |
Female |
41 (29.3) |
44 (33.8) |
χ2 (1) = 0.650 |
| |
|
|
|
(p = 0.434) |
| Level of Education |
|
|
|
|
| |
Illiterate or primary |
71 (51.4) |
31 (25.4) |
|
| |
Junior high |
34 (24.6) |
20 (16.4) |
|
| |
High School |
26 (18.8) |
37 (30.3) |
|
| |
College or graduate |
7 (5.1) |
34 (27.9) |
χ2 (3) = 38.177 |
| |
|
|
|
(p < 0.001) |
| |
missing |
2 |
8 |
|
| Marriage |
|
|
|
|
| |
Single |
46 (33.1) |
30 (23.6) |
|
| |
Married |
68 (48.9) |
74 (58.3) |
|
| |
Living as married |
12 (8.6) |
9 (7.1) |
|
| |
Divorced/widowed |
13 (9.4) |
14 (11.0) |
χ2 (3) = 3.553 |
| |
|
|
|
(p = 0.314) |
| |
missing |
1 |
3 |
|
| Ethnicity |
|
|
|
|
| |
Min-Nan |
38 (27.1) |
34 (27.0) |
|
| |
Hakka |
9 (6.4) |
7 (5.6) |
|
| |
Mainlander |
8 (5.7) |
8 (6.3) |
|
| |
Aboriginal |
85 (60.7) |
77 (61.1) |
χ2 (3) = 0.131 |
| |
|
|
|
(p = 0.988) |
| |
missing |
0 |
4 |
|
| Personal monthly income |
|
|
|
|
| (in US dollars) |
|
|
|
|
| |
< 950 |
117 (84.8) |
86 (66.7) |
|
| |
950-1,900 |
18 (13.0) |
28 (21.7) |
|
| |
> 1,900 |
3 (2.2) |
15 (11.6) |
χ2 (2) = 14.621 |
| |
|
|
|
(p < 0.001) |
| missing | 2 | 1 | ||
Notes. TB = tuberculosis.