Table 4.
Causes of default.
| Causes | PB leprosy | MB leprosy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PB-ROM | PB-MDT | % total (n) | MB-ROM | MB MDT | % total (n) | |
| Complaint of heat/weakness | 10 | 128 | 50.9 (138) | 2 | 60 | 66.0 (62) |
| Complaint of swelling all the body | 2 | 16 | 6.6 (18) | |||
| Vomiting/diarrhea/acidity | 4 | 24 | 10.3 (28) | |||
| Feeling cured/carelessness | 0 | 16 | 5.9 (16) | |||
| Bad smell/unable to swallow | 0 | 11 | 4.1 (11) | |||
| Bleeding | 0 | 7 | 2.6 (7) | 0 | 3 | 3.2 (3) |
| Feeling of having no leprosy | 0 | 7 | 2.6 (7) | |||
| Stigma, leprosy related | 0 | 2 | 0.7 (2) | |||
| Migrated | 4 | 38 | 15.5 (42) | 0 | 9 | 9.6 (9) |
| Refused for pregnancy | 0 | 1 | 0.4 (1) | |||
| Reaction | 0 | 1 | 0.4 (1) | 0 | 4 | 4.2 (4) |
| Unrelated death | 0 | 2 | 2.1 (2) | |||
| Blackish face (clofazimine) | 0 | 7 | 7.5 (7) | |||
| Severe itching | 2 | 2.1 (2) | ||||
| High BP/asthma | 4 | 4.3 (4) | ||||
| Changed to medical college | 1 | 1.0 (1) | ||||
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| Total | 20 | 251 | 100.0 (271) | 02 | 92 | 100.0 (94) |