Table 3 Biomedical TB knowledge reported by 300 TB patients during researcher-administered structured interviews at Kanyama clinic, Lusaka, Zambia
N (%) a | ||
|---|---|---|
Symptoms | ||
Respondents who knew TB symptoms: coughing, night sweats, loss of appetite, chest pain | no symptoms of TB | 7 (2.3) |
two or three symptoms of TB | 207 (69.0) | |
four symptoms of TB | 86 (28.7) | |
Treatment compliance and multi-drug resistant TB | ||
Respondents who | did not know the importance of treatment compliance | 51 (17.0) |
knew the importance of treatment compliance | 170 (56.7) | |
knew the importance of treatment compliance and understood the meaning of DR-TB | 79 (26.3) | |
TB aetiologies | ||
Respondents who mentioned | airborne | 257 (85.7) |
cough | 233 (77.7) | |
sharing cups, utensils | 155 (51.7) | |
evil spirits/witchcraft | 85 (28.3) | |
traditional myths | 58 (19.3) | |
smoking | 50 (16.7) | |
drinking beer | 39 (13.0) | |
promiscuous behaviour | 38 (12.7) | |
prostitution | 32 (10.7) | |
god | 28 (9.3) | |
genetic disease (Family TB) | 11 (3.7) | |