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Table 3 Knowledge of contact tracing among study and the control TB patients

From: Strengthening contact tracing capacity of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Enugu, southeast Nigeria: a targeted and focused health education intervention study

Knowledge

Baseline

Chi-square

P-value

Post- intervention

Chi-square

P-value

 

Study group

Control group

  

Study group

Control group

  
 

N = 176(%)

N = 172(%)

  

N = 176(%)

N = 172(%)

  

Meaning of contact tracing:

        

Screen all household members

79(44.9)

33(19.2)

26.32

0.000

151(85.8)

36(20.9)

147.22

0.000

95% CI

7.3-44.2

   

49.3-80.5

   

Screen only members who are coughing

107(60.8)

109(63.4)

0.25

0.620

4(2.3)

95(55.2)

119.86

0.000

95% CI

17.4-22.5

   

-37.7-68.1

   

Screen only household coughing out blood

114(64.8)

124(72.1)

2.16

0.142

9(5.1)

119(69.2)

153.58

0.000

95% CI

11.8-26.4

   

-49.2-79.1