Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of children TB patients attending treatment in selected health institutions of eastern Ethiopia, 2017 (n = 2,002).
| Variable | Number (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Male | 1,228 (61.3) | ||
| Female | 774 (38.7) | |||
| Age (in years) | 0–4 | 515 (25.7) | ||
| 5–9 | 696 (34.8) | |||
| 10–14 | 557 (27.8) | |||
| 15–17 | 234 (11.7) | |||
| Resident | Urban | 1,947 (97.3) | ||
| Rural | 55 (2.7) | |||
| HIV sero status of patients | Positive | 103 (5.1) | ||
| Negative | 918 (45.9) | |||
| Unknown | 982 (49.1) | |||
| Type of TB | PTB | SPPTB | 167 (8.3) | 1,391/2,002 =69.4 |
| SNPTB | 1,224 (61.1) | |||
| EPTB | 611 (30.5) | |||
| Type of TB patient | New | 1,996 (99.7) | ||
| Retreatment** | 6 (0.3) |
**Reasons for re-treatment was relapse.