Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants
| Characteristics | Total N (%) | Number (%) of study participants
|
P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-pastoral | Pastoral | Unspecified | |||
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 64 (39.8) | 30 (42.9) | 26 (36.6) | 8 (40.0) | 0.751 |
| Male | 97 (60.2) | 40 (57.1) | 45 (63.4) | 12 (60.0) | |
| Age in years | |||||
| 15–29 | 72 (44.7) | 32 (45.7) | 34 (47.9) | 6 (30.0) | 0.017 |
| 30–44 | 60 (37.3) | 28 (40.0) | 19 (26.8) | 13 (65.0) | |
| 45+ | 29 (18.0) | 10 (14.3) | 18 (25.4) | 1 (5.0) | |
| Type of TB | |||||
| PTB+ | 110 (68.3) | 48 (68.6) | 49 (69.0) | 13 (65.0) | 0.005 |
| PTB− | 25 (15.5) | 5 (7.1) | 13 (18.3) | 7 (35.0) | |
| EPTB | 26 (16.1) | 17 (24.3) | 9 (12.7) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Treatment history | |||||
| New TB case | 153 (95.0) | 68 (97.1) | 65 (91.5) | 20 (100.0) | 0.171 |
| TB re-treatment case | 8 (5.0) | 2 (2.9) | 6 (8.5) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Total | 161 (100) | 70 (43.5) | 71 (44.1) | 20 (12.4) | |
Abbreviations: TB, tuberculosis; PTB+, smear-positive pulmonary TB; PTB–, smear-negative pulmonary; TB; EPTB, extra-pulmonary TB.