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Table 1 Description of TB patients

From: Tuberculosis treatment discontinuation and symptom persistence: an observational study of Bihar, India’s public care system covering >100,000,000 inhabitants

  

Overall

First time

Repeat

Repeat

TB patients

TB patients: completed prior treatment

TB patients: incomplete prior treatment

N

 

1007

811

157

39

Percent of all patients

  

80%

16%

4%

Patient characteristics

     

Male

%

67.4%

68.3%

66.3%

54.9%

Mean age

Yrs

37.4

37.4

37.2

36.6

Literate

%

36.9%

39.1%

27.3%

31.8%

Education: mean amount of schooling (If Literate)

Yrs

7.15

7.20

6.66

7.79

Scheduled Caste, scheduled Tribe, other backward class

%

91.5%

91.3%

92.3%

90.3%

Hindu

%

88.9%

89.3%

88.2%

84.2%

Household characteristics

     

Household size

#

6.59

6.43

7.36

6.37

Number of children under 5

#

1.64

1.59

1.87

1.70

Treatment and illness

     

Total weeks from symptom onset to treatment initiation

Wks

6.05

6.01

6.33

5.63

Number of providers visited

#

1.07

1.04

1.18

1.25

Any treatment or medication fees

%

63.9%

59.2%

85.3%

68.2%

Any travel costs

%

79.4%

79.5%

78.4%

82.0%

Mean total cost of treatment among those paying any costs/fees

Rupees

318

296

385

456

2 or fewer symptoms at treatment initiation

%

46.7%

50.5%

23.1%

69.9%

3-4 symptoms at treatment initiation

%

18.7%

18.3%

21.6%

14.1%

≥5 symptoms at treatment initiation

%

34.6%

31.1%

55.4%

16.0%