Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of 273 smear-positive tuberculosis cases that were registered between April 2014 and March 2015
| City | Patients with tuberculosis n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Taiz, n (%) | Alhodidah, n (%) | ||
| Sex | |||
| Male | 72 (48) | 78 (52) | 150 (54.9) |
| Female | 73 (59.3) | 50 (40.7) | 123 (45.1) |
| Age (years) | |||
| 16–25 | 69 (62.7) | 41 (37.3) | 110 (40.3) |
| 26–35 | 37 (52.9) | 33 (47.1) | 70 (25.6) |
| 36–45 | 18 (56.3) | 14 (43.8) | 32 (11.7) |
| 46–55 | 13 (40.6) | 19 (59.4) | 32 (11.7) |
| 56–65 | 4 (22.2) | 14 (43.8) | 18 (6.6) |
| ≥ 66 | 4 (36.4) | 7 (63.3) | 11 (4) |
| Weight (kg) | |||
| ≤ 30 | 2 (18.2) | 9 (81.8) | 11 (4) |
| 31–40 | 43 (61.4) | 27 (38.6) | 70 (25.6) |
| 41–50 | 69 (52.7) | 62 (47.3) | 131 (48) |
| 51–60 | 19 (47.5) | 21 (52.5) | 40 (14.7) |
| 61–70 | 8 (53.3) | 7 (46.7) | 15 (5.5) |
| > 70 | 4 (66.7) | 2 (33.3) | 6 (2.2) |
| BMI (kg/m2) | |||
| < 18.5 | 80 (55.6) | 64 (44.4) | 144 (52.7) |
| ≥ 18.5 | 65 (50.4) | 64 (49.6) | 129 (47.3) |
| Area | |||
| Urban | 91 (48.7) | 96 (51.3) | 187 (68.5) |
| Rural | 54 (62.8) | 32 (37.2) | 86 (31.5) |
| Level of education | |||
| Illiterate | 53 (43.4) | 69 (56.6) | 122 (44.7) |
| Primary | 34 (54.8) | 28 (45.2) | 62 (22.7) |
| Pre-secondary | 23 (82.1) | 5 (17.9) | 28 (10.3) |
| Secondary | 25 (53.2) | 22 (46.8) | 47 (17.2) |
| University | 10 (71.4) | 4 (28.6) | 14 (5.1) |
| Marital status | |||
| Single | 49 (45.8) | 58 (54.2) | 107 (39.2) |
| Divorced | 2 (50) | 2 (50) | 4 (1.5) |
| Widow | 6 (54.5) | 5 (45.5) | 11 (4) |
| Married | 88 (58.3) | 63 (41.7) | 151 (55.3) |
| Employment status | |||
| Employed | 57 (50.4) | 56 (49.6) | 113 (41.4) |
| Unemployed | 88 (55) | 72 (45) | 160 (58.6) |
| Smoking habit | |||
| Yes | 110 (57.6) | 81 (42.4) | 191 (70) |
| No | 35 (42.7) | 47 (57.3) | 82 (30) |
| Chewing khat a | |||
| Yes | 90 (51.1) | 86 (48.9) | 176 (64.5) |
| No | 55 (56.7) | 42 (43.3) | 97 (35) |
| Monthly income (rialb) | |||
| ≤ 10,000 | 98 (53.6) | 85 (46.4) | 183 (67) |
| > 10,000 | 47 (52.2) | 43 (47.8) | 90 (33) |
| Stigma | |||
| Yes | 49 (41.2) | 70 (58.8) | 119 (43.6) |
| No | 96 (62.3) | 58 (54.7) | 154 (56.4) |
| Knowledge | |||
| Poor (1–3) | 23 (59) | 16 (41) | 39 (14.3) |
| Good (4–6) | 122 (52.1) | 112 (47.9) | 234 (85.7) |
| Family history of tuberculosis | |||
| Yes | 61 (68.5) | 28 (31.5) | 89 (32.6) |
| No | 84 (45.7) | 100 (54.3) | 184 (67.4) |
| BCG vaccination | |||
| Yes | 42 (84) | 8 (16) | 50 (18.3) |
| No | 103 (46.2) | 120 (53.8) | 223 (81.7) |
BMI body mass index, BCG Bacillus Calmette–Guerin
akhat: a shrub that grows in parts of East Africa and Yemen, b rial: one dollar is approximately equivalent to 215 rial