Table 2.
Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients enrolled in the Zimbabwe TB drug resistant survey, 2015–2016.
| Demographic characteristics | TB patients | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Retreatment | |||||
| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%)a | |
| Total | 1114 | (87.6) | 158 | (12.4) | 1272 | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 668 | (60.0) | 98 | (62.0) | 766 | (60.2) |
| Female | 446 | (40.0) | 60 | (38.0) | 506 | (39.8) |
| Age group | ||||||
| <15 | 18 | (1.6) | 1 | (0.6) | 19 | (1.5) |
| 15–24 | 171 | (15.4) | 13 | (8.2) | 184 | (14.5) |
| 25–34 | 415 | (37.3) | 43 | (27.2) | 458 | (36.0) |
| 35–44 | 315 | (28.3) | 50 | (31.6) | 365 | (28.7) |
| 45–54 | 116 | (10.4) | 33 | (20.9) | 149 | (11.7) |
| 55–64 | 46 | (4.1) | 7 | (4.4) | 53 | (4.2) |
| ≥65 | 31 | (2.8) | 11 | (7.0) | 42 | (3.3) |
| Unknown | 2 | (0.2) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (0.2) |
| HIV status | ||||||
| Positive | 580 | (52.1) | 119 | (75.3) | 699 | (55.0) |
| Negative | 492 | (44.2) | 34 | (21.5) | 526 | (41.4) |
| Unknown | 42 | (3.7) | 5 | (3.2) | 47 | (3.6) |
| History of any travel outside Zimbabwe | ||||||
| For ≥1 month | 243 | (21.8) | 50 | (31.6) | 293 | (23.0) |
| To South Africa | 166 | (14.9) | 32 | (20.3) | 198 | (15.6) |
| Other SADC countries | 62 | (5.6) | 17 | (10.8) | 79 | (6.2) |
| To other SADC countries | 8 | (0.7) | 1 | (0.6) | 9 | (0.7) |
| Unknown | 7 | (0.6) | 0 | (0.0) | 7 | (0.6) |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Never married | 229 | (20.6) | 22 | (13.9) | 251 | (19.7) |
| Married | 600 | (53.9) | 75 | (47.5) | 675 | (53.1) |
| Divorced | 177 | (15.9) | 33 | (20.9) | 210 | (16.5) |
| Widowed | 89 | (8.0) | 22 | (13.9) | 111 | (8.7) |
| Unknown | 19 | (1.7) | 6 | (3.8) | 25 | (2.0) |
| Level of education | ||||||
| None | 39 | (3.5) | 4 | (2.5) | 43 | (3.4) |
| Primary | 312 | (28.0) | 46 | (29.1) | 358 | (28.1) |
| Secondary | 700 | (62.8) | 94 | (59.5) | 794 | (62.4) |
| Tertiary | 55 | (4.9) | 13 | (8.2) | 68 | (5.3) |
| Missing | 8 | (0.7) | 1 | (0.6) | 9 | (0.7) |
| Cluster location | ||||||
| Urban | 671 | (60.2) | 94 | (59.5) | 765 | (60.1) |
| Rural | 443 | (39.8) | 64 | (40.5) | 507 | (39.9) |
SADC = Southern Africa Development Community; TB = tuberculosis.
a
Column percentages.