Table 3.
Comparison of treatment outcome in pediatric children with tuberculosis in Khuzestan, a southern province of Iran with calculated odds ratio (OR) with corresponding 95% confidence interval (95%CI) (2005-2010)
| Variables |
Successful outcome
N=144 |
Poor outcome
N=13 |
OR, 95%CI | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) <10 ≥10 |
21 (14.6) 123 (85.4) |
3 (23.1) 10 (76.9) |
0.57,0.14-2.24 | 0.42 |
| Sex Female Male |
95 (66.0) 49 (34.0) |
8 (61.5) 5 (38.5) |
1.94,0.54-7.02 | 0.42 |
| PTB EPTB |
89 (61.8) 55 (38.2) |
7 (53.8) 6 (46.2) |
1.39,0.44-4.34 | 0.36 |
| SPPTB SNPTB |
61 (42.4) 28 (19.4) |
4 (30.8) 3 (23.1) |
1.63,0.34-7.79 | 0.22 |
| Rural Urban |
51 (35.4) 93 (64.6) |
2 (15.4) 11 (84.6) |
3.02,0.64-14.14 | 0.61 |
| Low body weight* | 2 (1.4) | 2 (15.4) | 0.08,0.01-0.60 | 0.005 |
| Contact with failure TB* | 8 (5.6) | 4 (30.8) | 0.13,0.03-0.52 | 0.02 |
| Exposure to household *smoker | 24 (16.7) | 7 (53.8) | 0.17,0.05-0.56 | 0.004 |
Abbreviation: PTB; pulmonary tuberculosis, EPTB; extrapulmonary tuberculosis, SPPTB; smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis, SNPTB; smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis, CI; confidence interval, OR; odds ratio,
*;
statistically significant.