TABLE 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients with tuberculosis in relation to types of DOT in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe, in 2011
| Category | Total n | Type of DOT |
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| Health facility-based n (%)* | Trained community worker n (%) | Family-based n (%) | Not recordsssed n (%) | ||
| All registered TB patients | 763 | 59 (8) | 392 (51) | 306 (40) | 6 (1) |
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 369 | 37 (10) | 184 (50) | 145 (39) | 3 (1) |
| Female | 394 | 22 (6) | 208 (52) | 161 (41) | 3 (1) |
| Age group, years | |||||
| 0–14 | 90 | 1 (1) | 59 (66) | 30 (33) | 0 |
| 15–49 | 524 | 40 (8) | 265 (50) | 216 (41) | 4 (1) |
| ≥50 | 139 | 18 (13) | 61 (44) | 58 (42) | 2 (1) |
| Not recorded | 10 | 0 | 8 (80) | 2 (20) | 0 |
| Type of TB | |||||
| New smear-positive PTB | 144 | 9 (6) | 85 (60) | 49 (34) | 1 (<1) |
| New smear-negative PTB† | 428 | 17 (4) | 237 (55) | 173 (41) | 1 (<1) |
| New extra-pulmonary TB | 86 | 3 (3) | 33 (38) | 47 (55) | 3 (4) |
| Previously treated TB‡ | 102 | 30 (29) | 36 (35) | 35 (35) | 1 (1) |
| Not recorded | 3 | 0 | 1 (33) | 2 (67) | 0 |
| HIV and ART status | |||||
| HIV-positive | 556 | 42 (8) | 286 (51) | 224 (40) | 4 (1) |
| HIV-negative | 201 | 17 (8) | 104 (52) | 78 (39) | 2 (1) |
| HIV status not recorded | 6 | 0 | 2 (33) | 4 (67) | 0 |
| ART for HIV-positive TB | 485 | 39 (8) | 255 (53) | 187 (39) | 4 (<1) |
*
Undertaken at one of the hospitals or at one of the rural health centres.
†
Includes three patients with smears not done.
‡
Includes relapse smear-positive PTB (n = 21), failure of first-line treatment (n = 6), treatment after default (n = 1) and retreatment others (n = 74).
DOT = directly observed treatment; TB = tuberculosis; PTB = pulmonary TB; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; ART = antiretroviral therapy.