Table 3.
Mean number of working hours lost for tuberculosis care for patients and their households in the Solomon Islands national tuberculosis patient cost survey: 2017–2019
| Amount of lost time | Extra-pulmonary TB N = 36 Mean no. of hours (95% CI) |
Pulmonary TB N = 147 Mean no. of hours (95% CI) |
All patients N = 183 Mean no. of hours (95% CI) |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For TB care for TB patients | ||||
| Pre-disease | 6.8 (2.0, 11.5) | 7.3 (3.7, 11.0) | 7.2 (4.2, 10.2) | 0.875 |
| Hospitalization | 463.7 (295.7, 631.7) | 292.3 (221.2, 363.3) | 326.0 (260.0, 392.0) | 0.041 |
| Directly observed therapy | 3.4 (−1.6, 8.3) | 11.5 (−0.4, 23.5) | 9.9 (0.3, 19.6) | 0.508 |
| Drug pick-up | 15.0 (−2.6, 32.7) | 8.2 (6.0, 10.3) | 9.5 (5.7, 13.3) | 0.152 |
| Follow-up | 3.8 (0.8, 6.8) | 4.2 (2.0, 6.4) | 4.1 (2.2, 6.0) | 0.877 |
| Total lost time | 490.7 (320.6, 660.9) | 321.0 (248.6, 393.4) | 354.4 (287.3, 421.4) | 0.047 |
| For TB care for household members of TB patients* | ||||
| Hospitalization | 103.2 (−5.8, 212.2) | 227.3 (13.3, 441.2) | 198.5 (33.3, 363.7) | 0.531 |
| Directly observed therapy | 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) | 15.1 (−7.0, 37.3) | 12.4 (−5.7, 30.6) | 0.531 |
| Drug pick-up | 28.5 (−19.2, 76.1) | 8.5 (4.6, 12.5) | 11.9 (3.9, 19.9) | 0.065 |
| Follow-up | 1.2 (−0.1, 2.5) | 3.8 (1.0, 6.6) | 3.2 (1.1, 5.4) | 0.312 |
| Total lost time | 63.4 (9.6, 117.2) | 117.6 (25.6, 209.5) | 105.7 (33.1, 178.3) | 0.544 |
Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval; no number; TB Tuberculosis.* This is in addition to the TB patient