Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of HIV-positive patients on isoniazid preventive therapy in Gondar, 2016
| Variables | Categories | Frequency (n=154) |
Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Male | 80 | 51.9 |
| Female | 74 | 48.1 | |
| Age | 18–30 | 81 | 54.5 |
| 31–40 | 51 | 33.1 | |
| >40 | 19 | 12.3 | |
| Level of education | Illiterate | 10 | 6.5 |
| Primary school | 105 | 68.2 | |
| Secondary school | 28 | 18.2 | |
| Diploma and above | 11 | 7.1 | |
| Religion | Orthodox | 139 | 90.1 |
| Protestant | 1 | 0.6 | |
| Muslim | 14 | 9.1 | |
| Ethnicity | Amhara | 144 | 93.5 |
| Oromo | 2 | 1.2 | |
| Tigre | 7 | 4.5 | |
| Gurage | 1 | 0.6 | |
| Family size | <5 | 118 | 76.6 |
| 6–10 | 33 | 21.4 | |
| >10 | 3 | 1.9 | |
| Occupation | Self-employed | 45 | 29.2 |
| Government | 26 | 16.9 | |
| employed | |||
| Housewives | 33 | 21.4 | |
| Merchants | 37 | 24.0 | |
| Farmers | 11 | 7.1 | |
| Students | 2 | 1.3 | |
| Monthly income | <250 ETB | 71 | 46.1 |
| 251–999 ETB | 47 | 30.5 | |
| >1,000 ETB | 36 | 23.4 | |
| WHO HIV/AIDS stage | 1 and 2 | 36 | 23.4 |
| 3 | 116 | 75.3 | |
| 4 | 2 | 1.3 |
Note: 1 USD =21.85 Birr.
Abbreviations: ETB, Ethiopian Birr; USD, United States dollar; WHO, World Health Organization.