Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of patients who participated in the Solomon Islands national tuberculosis patient cost survey: 2017–2019
| Socio-demographic characteristics | Extra-pulmonary TB N = 36 n (%) |
Pulmonary TB N = 147 n (%) |
All patients N = 183 n (%) |
p value* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age group (years) | ||||
| 0–14 | 3 (8.3) | 18 (12.2) | 21 (11.5) | 0.964 |
| 15–24 | 10 (27.8) | 31 (21.1) | 41 (22.4) | |
| 25–34 | 8 (22.2) | 32 (21.8) | 40 (21.9) | |
| 35–44 | 8 (22.2) | 30 (20.4) | 38 (20.8) | |
| 45–54 | 4 (11.1) | 20 (13.6) | 24 (13.1) | |
| 55–64 | 2 (5.6) | 9 (6.1) | 11 (6.0) | |
| 65+ | 1 (2.8) | 7 (4.8) | 8 (4.4) | |
| Mean (95% CI) | 31.8 (26.4, 37.2) | 33.0 (30.2, 35.8) | 32.8 (30.3, 35.2) | 0.700 |
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 19 (52.8) | 72 (49.0) | 91 (49.7) | 0.683 |
| Male | 17 (47.2) | 75 (51.0) | 92 (50.3) | |
| Year of TB registration | ||||
| 2017 | 0 (0.0) | 13 (8.8) | 13 (7.1) | 0.036 |
| 2018 | 20 (55.6) | 95 (64.6) | 115 (62.8) | |
| 2019 | 16 (44.4) | 39 (26.5) | 55 (30.1) | |
| Province | ||||
| Central | 1 (2.8) | 4 (2.7) | 5 (2.7) | 0.028 |
| Choiseul | 0 (0.0) | 5 (3.4) | 5 (2.7) | |
| Guadalcanal | 7 (19.4) | 15 (10.2) | 22 (12.0) | |
| Honiara City | 16 (44.4) | 35 (23.8) | 51 (27.9) | |
| Makira | 2 (5.6) | 21 (14.3) | 23 (12.6) | |
| Malaita | 10 (27.8) | 36 (24.5) | 46 (25.1) | |
| Temotu | 0 (0.0) | 11 (7.5) | 11 (6.0) | |
| Western | 0 (0.0) | 19 (12.9) | 19 (10.4) | |
| Ysabel | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.5) | |
| Insurance status | ||||
| No insurance | 36 (100.0) | 144 (98.0) | 180 (98.4) | 0.387 |
| With insurance | 0 (0.0) | 3 (2.0) | 3 (1.6) | |
| Education level | ||||
| No education | 9 (25.7) | 23 (15.6) | 32 (17.6) | 0.560 |
| Pre- or primary school | 16 (45.7) | 75 (51.0) | 91 (50.0) | |
| Secondary school | 8 (22.9) | 41 (27.9) | 49 (26.9) | |
| University, vocational or other | 2 (5.7) | 8 (5.4) | 10 (5.5) | |
| Employment status, pre-disease | ||||
| Employed | 7 (19.4) | 16 (10.9) | 23 (12.6) | 0.265 |
| Unemployed | 14 (38.9) | 75 (51.0) | 89 (48.6) | |
| Student, retired, household work or other | 15 (41.7) | 56 (38.1) | 71 (38.8) | |
| Household size | ||||
| Mean (95% CI) | 6.7 (5.7, 7.7) | 6.7 (6.3, 7.2) | 6.7 (6.3, 7.1) | 0.970 |
| Reported household income, monthly, pre-disease, monthly | ||||
| Median (IQR) | 12.3 (0.0, 87.4) | 24.6 (12.3, 92.4) | 22.2 (12.3, 91.1) | 0.252 |
| TB patient was main income earner | ||||
| Yes | 1 (2.8) | 8 (5.4) | 9 (4.9) | 0.694 |
| No | 14 (38.9) | 66 (44.9) | 80 (43.7) | |
| Equal contributor | 13 (36.1) | 40 (27.2) | 53 (29.0) | |
| Not an income earner | 8 (22.2) | 33 (22.4) | 41 (22.4) | |
Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval; IQR Inter quartile range; TB Tuberculosis.* P values compare the proportions of patients with the characteristic of interest, in the pulmonary and extra-pulmonary groups