Table 1.
Demographic profile of participants
| Total sample group (n=67) | Control Group (n=33) |
Intervention Group (n=34) |
||
| Gender | Male | 33 (49%) | 16 (49%) | 17 (50%) |
| Female | 34 (51%) | 17 (51%) | 17 (50%) | |
| Occupation | Employed | 17 (25%) | 7 (21%) | 10 (29%) |
| Unemployed | 50 (75%) | 26 (79%) | 24 (71%) | |
| Level of Education | No formal Education | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Primary School (Gr. 1–7) |
16 (24%) | 11 (33%) | 5 (15%) | |
| High School (Gr. 8–11) |
36 (54%) | 17 (52%) | 19 (56%) | |
| Completed Gr. 12 | 15 (22%) | 5 (15%) | 10 (29%) | |
| Marital status | Married | 22 (33%) | 11 (33%) | 11 (32%) |
| Widowed | 2 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (6%) | |
| Divorced/single | 43 (64%) | 22 (67%) | 21 (62%) | |
| Smoking History | Current smoker | 5 (7%) | 4 (12%) | 1 (3%) |
| Ex-smoker | 29 (43%) | 15 (46%) | 14 (41%) | |
| Never smoked before | 33 (49%) | 14 (42%) | 19 (56%) | |
| Diagnosis | PTB only * | 21 (31%) | 10 (30%) | 11 (32%) |
| PTB + HIV# | 46 (69%) | 23 (70%) | 23 (68%) | |
| ARV'S§ | Yes | 45 (67%) | 22 (67%) | 23 (68%) |
| No | 22 (33%) | 11 (33%) | 11 (32%) | |
| PTB regimen‡ | 1 | 23 (34%) | 14 (42%) | 9 (26%) |
| 2 | 44 (66%) | 19 (58%) | 25 (74%) |
CG - Control Group; IG - Intervention Group;
*
Pulmonary tuberculosis in the absence of comorbidity;
#
Human Immunodeficiency Virus;
§
Anti-retroviral treatment;
‡
PTB regimen 2 is associated with multiple drug-resistant PTB