Table 1.
Description of TB patients
| Overall |
First time |
Repeat |
Repeat |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TB patients | TB patients: completed prior treatment | TB patients: incomplete prior treatment | |||
|
N |
|
1007 |
811 |
157 |
39 |
|
Percent of all patients |
|
|
80% |
16% |
4% |
|
Patient characteristics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Male |
% |
67.4% |
68.3% |
66.3% |
54.9% |
|
Mean age |
Yrs |
37.4 |
37.4 |
37.2 |
36.6 |
|
Literate |
% |
36.9% |
39.1% |
27.3% |
31.8% |
|
Education: mean amount of schooling (If Literate) |
Yrs |
7.15 |
7.20 |
6.66 |
7.79 |
|
Scheduled Caste, scheduled Tribe, other backward class |
% |
91.5% |
91.3% |
92.3% |
90.3% |
|
Hindu |
% |
88.9% |
89.3% |
88.2% |
84.2% |
|
Household characteristics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Household size |
# |
6.59 |
6.43 |
7.36 |
6.37 |
|
Number of children under 5 |
# |
1.64 |
1.59 |
1.87 |
1.70 |
|
Treatment and illness |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total weeks from symptom onset to treatment initiation |
Wks |
6.05 |
6.01 |
6.33 |
5.63 |
|
Number of providers visited |
# |
1.07 |
1.04 |
1.18 |
1.25 |
|
Any treatment or medication fees |
% |
63.9% |
59.2% |
85.3% |
68.2% |
|
Any travel costs |
% |
79.4% |
79.5% |
78.4% |
82.0% |
|
Mean total cost of treatment among those paying any costs/fees |
Rupees |
318 |
296 |
385 |
456 |
|
2 or fewer symptoms at treatment initiation |
% |
46.7% |
50.5% |
23.1% |
69.9% |
|
3-4 symptoms at treatment initiation |
% |
18.7% |
18.3% |
21.6% |
14.1% |
| ≥5 symptoms at treatment initiation | % | 34.6% | 31.1% | 55.4% | 16.0% |