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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of 273 smear-positive tuberculosis cases that were registered between April 2014 and March 2015

From: Evaluating treatment outcomes and durations among cases of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Yemen: a prospective follow-up study

 

City

Patients with tuberculosis

n (%)

Taiz, n (%)

Alhodidah, n (%)

Sex

 Male

72 (48)

78 (52)

150 (54.9)

 Female

73 (59.3)

50 (40.7)

123 (45.1)

Age (years)

 16–25

69 (62.7)

41 (37.3)

110 (40.3)

 26–35

37 (52.9)

33 (47.1)

70 (25.6)

 36–45

18 (56.3)

14 (43.8)

32 (11.7)

 46–55

13 (40.6)

19 (59.4)

32 (11.7)

 56–65

4 (22.2)

14 (43.8)

18 (6.6)

  ≥ 66

4 (36.4)

7 (63.3)

11 (4)

Weight (kg)

  ≤ 30

2 (18.2)

9 (81.8)

11 (4)

 31–40

43 (61.4)

27 (38.6)

70 (25.6)

 41–50

69 (52.7)

62 (47.3)

131 (48)

 51–60

19 (47.5)

21 (52.5)

40 (14.7)

 61–70

8 (53.3)

7 (46.7)

15 (5.5)

  > 70

4 (66.7)

2 (33.3)

6 (2.2)

BMI (kg/m2)

  < 18.5

80 (55.6)

64 (44.4)

144 (52.7)

  ≥ 18.5

65 (50.4)

64 (49.6)

129 (47.3)

Area

 Urban

91 (48.7)

96 (51.3)

187 (68.5)

 Rural

54 (62.8)

32 (37.2)

86 (31.5)

Level of education

 Illiterate

53 (43.4)

69 (56.6)

122 (44.7)

 Primary

34 (54.8)

28 (45.2)

62 (22.7)

 Pre-secondary

23 (82.1)

5 (17.9)

28 (10.3)

 Secondary

25 (53.2)

22 (46.8)

47 (17.2)

 University

10 (71.4)

4 (28.6)

14 (5.1)

Marital status

 Single

49 (45.8)

58 (54.2)

107 (39.2)

 Divorced

2 (50)

2 (50)

4 (1.5)

 Widow

6 (54.5)

5 (45.5)

11 (4)

 Married

88 (58.3)

63 (41.7)

151 (55.3)

Employment status

 Employed

57 (50.4)

56 (49.6)

113 (41.4)

 Unemployed

88 (55)

72 (45)

160 (58.6)

Smoking habit

 Yes

110 (57.6)

81 (42.4)

191 (70)

 No

35 (42.7)

47 (57.3)

82 (30)

Chewing khat a

 Yes

90 (51.1)

86 (48.9)

176 (64.5)

 No

55 (56.7)

42 (43.3)

97 (35)

Monthly income (rialb)

  ≤ 10,000

98 (53.6)

85 (46.4)

183 (67)

  > 10,000

47 (52.2)

43 (47.8)

90 (33)

Stigma

 Yes

49 (41.2)

70 (58.8)

119 (43.6)

 No

96 (62.3)

58 (54.7)

154 (56.4)

Knowledge

 Poor (1–3)

23 (59)

16 (41)

39 (14.3)

 Good (4–6)

122 (52.1)

112 (47.9)

234 (85.7)

Family history of tuberculosis

 Yes

61 (68.5)

28 (31.5)

89 (32.6)

 No

84 (45.7)

100 (54.3)

184 (67.4)

BCG vaccination

 Yes

42 (84)

8 (16)

50 (18.3)

 No

103 (46.2)

120 (53.8)

223 (81.7)

  1. BMI body mass index, BCG Bacillus Calmette–Guerin
  2. akhat: a shrub that grows in parts of East Africa and Yemen, b rial: one dollar is approximately equivalent to 215 rial