Table 1.

Patients’ general characteristics.

	Guardian-supervised DOTS		CHW-supervised DOTS		p-value
	n	%	n	%
Sex
Female	15	32.6	22	26.2	0.43
Male	31	67.4	62	73.8
Age (in years)
Mean (SD)	35.0	10.9	36.1	12.6	0.62
Race
Black	37	80.4	64	76.2	0.58
White	9	19.6	20	23.8
Education status
Illiterate	14	30.4	13	15.3	0.04
Primary school or above	32	69.6	71	84.7
Occupation
Unemployed	4	8.7	10	11.9	0.57
Employed	42	91.3	74	88.1
Distance between home-TB clinic
Below 1km	1	2.5	15	17.8	0.01
Above 1km	40	97.5	69	82.2
Smear (%)
Positive	35	76.1	70	83.3	0.31
Culture (%)
Positive	46	100.0	84	100.0	-

CHW: community health workers; DOTS: Directly Observed Therapy short-course; TB: tuberculosis.