Table 1.
Patient and Caregiver Cost of Illness Due to Enteric Fever, Sample Characteristics, Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 2016–December 2018
| Characteristic | n | % |
|---|---|---|
| Respondents | ||
| Patients enrolled in surveillance study | 2203 | 100.0 |
| Patients responding to enrollment cost questionnaire | 1772 | 80.4 |
| Patients responding to 6-week follow-up cost questionnaire | 1693 | 76.8 |
| Patients who died of enteric fever | 0 | 0.0 |
| Cost of illness patient sample: respondents to enrollment cost questionnaire only (n = 1772) | ||
| Age (years) | ||
| <2 | 232 | 13.1 |
| 2–4 | 677 | 38.2 |
| 5–17 | 863 | 48.7 |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 975 | 55.0 |
| Female | 797 | 45.0 |
| Blood culture result | ||
| Salmonella Typhi positive | 1530 | 86.3 |
| Salmonella Paratyphi positive | 240 | 13.5 |
| Not positive for either Salmonella Typhi or Paratyphi (surgical cases) | 2 | 0.1 |
| Household with mobile phone | ||
| Yes | 1600 | 90.3 |
| No | 24 | 1.4 |
| Did not respond | 148 | 8.4 |
| Households with electricity | ||
| Yes | 1611 | 90.9 |
| No | 13 | 0.7 |
| Did not respond | 148 | 8.4 |
| Households with car/motorcycle | ||
| Yes | 87 | 4.9 |
| No | 1537 | 86.7 |
| Did not respond | 148 | 8.4 |
| Household roof material | ||
| Cement | 1457 | 82.3 |
| Metal sheets, mats, ceramic, shingles | 313 | 17.6 |
| Natural materials | 2 | 0.1 |
| Households with sanitation | ||
| Household flush to sewer system, septic tank, somewhere else | 1504 | 84.9 |
| Household pit latrine, bucket or hanging toilet, communal toilet, other | 120 | 6.8 |
| Did not respond | 148 | 8.4 |
| Drinking water treated at home | ||
| Boil | 958 | 54.1 |
| Chlorine liquid, powder, or tablets | 100 | 5.6 |
| Other | 142 | 8.0 |
| Do not treat water | 149 | 8.4 |
| Did not respond | 423 | 23.9 |