Table 1.

Total sample and sub-group characteristics among subjects of reviewed studies at the time of subjects’ initial HRQOL evaluation [1–4, 6, 9, 10, 12–15, 18–21, 26, 29, 31–33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 45, 46, 49, 51–53, 56, 57, 59, 60]

Subject Group	Characteristics	Studies reporting	Number of subjects with available information (% of subjects in that category)	Number of subjects (%) with attribute
All subjects (N = 6,028) 36 articles, 28 unique cohorts of TB patients	Demographics
	Women	27	5805 (96)	2408 (42)
	Mean age—years	13	2001 (33)	42
	Foreign-born	6	1049 (17)	790 (75)
	Median duration in study country—years	3	368 (6)	3–7
	Racial/ethnic minority	6	991 (16)	517 (52)
	Socioeconomic
	Completed ≤ primary school % per study	14	3820 (63)	8–89
	Unemployed % per study	9	2316 (39)	7–80
	Co-infection status and health behaviors
	HIV co-infection	10	2360 (39)	696 (29)
	Smokers	9	1602 (27)	597 (37)
	Alcohol abuse	5	916 (15)	444 (48)
	Injection drug use	2	368 (6)	19 (5)
Active TB (n = 3,541, 59 %), 24 unique cohorts	Demographics
	Women	23	3524 (99)	1360 (39)
	Mean age—years	18	2233 (63)	40
	Foreign-born	5	416 (12)	324 (78)
	Median duration in study country—years	2	122 (3)	3–7
	Racial/ethnic minority	–	–	–
	Socioeconomic
	Completed ≤ primary school % per study	12	2410 (68)	9–76
	Unemployed % per study	9	1749 (49)	7–80
	Co-infection status and health behaviors
	HIV co-infection	8	722 (20)	213 (30)
LTBI (n = 639, 11 %), 6 unique cohorts	Demographics
	Women	5	614 (96)	308 (48)
	Mean age—years	5	614 (96)	39
	Foreign-born	3	299 (47)	260 (41)
	Co-infection status and health behaviors
	HIV co-infection	5	561 (88)	16 (3)
Controls (n = 1049, 17 %), 8 unique cohorts	Demographics
	Women	5	611 (58)	251 (24)
	Mean age—years	5	611 (58)	38
	Socioeconomic
	Completed ≤ primary school % per study	4	383 (37)	7–26