Table 3.

Reasons for delay.^†

	Patients showing delay
First care seeking delay	Non-outliers 15–25 days (n = 10)	Outliers ≥ 26 days (n = 10)
Did not deem symptoms serious enough	3	3
Attributed symptoms to other causes (allergy, weather, pollution, common cough, weakness, addictions)	10	5
Financial constraints	1	4
Tried home remedies	1	0
Family-related issues	0	1
Diagnostic delay	Non-outliers 15–39 days (n = 12)	Outliers ≥ 40 days (n = 12)
Patient-related factors
provider shopping	11	12
delay in approaching provider after leaving previous provider	8	10
refusal to get tests done	2	0
Provider-related factors
advising symptomatic treatment for long duration	7	7
delay in advising TB-relevant tests	3	4
wrong diagnosis	1	2
Referral	0	1
Treatment initiation delay	Non-outliers 8–14 days (n = 3)	Outliers ≥ 15 days (n = 2)
Patient-related factors
provider shopping	0	1
Lack of money	1	1
delay in approaching provider after leaving previous provider	0	1
Provider-related factors
Referral by diagnosing provider to another provider for initiation of treatment	2	0
long symptomatic treatment (despite TB diagnosis by previous provider)	1	0

^†Some patients had no response or more than one response.