Table 3.
Health Status of Adult Patients with TB in Jigjiga Public Health Facilities, Somali Region, Eastern Ethiopia, April, 2020
| Variable | Category | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nutritional status | Undernourished | 131 | 44.3 |
| Normal | 165 | 55.7 | |
| Type of TB | Pulmonary TB | 167 | 56.4 |
| Extra-pulmonary TB | 114 | 38.5 | |
| MDR TB | 15 | 5.1 | |
| TB treatment | New case | 252 | 85.1 |
| Previous history of TB treatment | 44 | 14.9 | |
| HIV/AIDS status | Positive | 6 | 2 |
| Negative | 290 | 98 | |
| The type of anti-TB treatment | RHZE | 123 | 41.6 |
| RH | 158 | 53.4 | |
| Linezolid, pyrazinamide, cycloserine | 7 | 2.4 | |
| Cycloserine, levofloxacin, linezolid | 8 | 2.7 | |
| Duration of anti-TB treatment | <four weeks | 142 | 48 |
| >four weeks | 154 | 52 |