Serial survey shows community intervention may contribute to increase in knowledge of Tuberculosis in 30 districts of India

Table 2 Knowledge of Tuberculosis among respondents in baseline (2010–2011) and midline (2012–2013) surveys in 30 districts in India

Key knowledge’s on TB	Baseline (n = 3822)		Midline (n = 4211)		Total		***p-value
Key knowledge’s on TB	n	%	n	%	n	%	***p-value
Symptoms*
Cough of ≥2 weeks	2829	74	3421	81	6250	78	<0.001
Chest pain	1147	30	1138	27	2285	28	0.112
Coughing blood	1721	45	2311	55	4032	50	<0.001
Fever	1262	33	1514	36	2776	35	0.090
Night sweat	77	2	322	8	399	5	0.060
Weight loss	650	17	1075	26	1725	21	<0.001
Loss of appetite	345	9	679	16	1024	13	0.002
Don’t know	421	11	282	7	703	9	0.070
Mode of transmission*
Air	2293	60	2973	71	5266	66	<0.001
Sharing of food	1184	31	1568	37	2752	34	<0.001
Sharing bed clothes	535	14	875	21	1410	18	0.005
Hand shake	688	18	394	9	1082	13	<0.001
Don’t know	764	20	580	14	1344	17	0.004
Diagnosis*
Sputum	2523	66	2764	66	5287	66	1.000
Chest X-ray	2332	61	2281	54	4613	57	<0.001
Other (blood, skin, urine)	382	10	59	1	441	5	0.020
Don’t know	573	15	582	13	1155	14	0.100
Curability
Yes completely	3364	88	3505	83	6869	85	<0.001
Yes partially	305	8	450	11	755	9	0.170
No	38	1	51	1	89	1	1.000
Don’t know	115	3	205	5	320	4	0.390
Duration of treatment
4wks or less	115	3	97	2	212	3	0.640
1–5mths	612	16	358	9	970	12	0.002
6–8mths	1759	46	2028	48	3787	47	0.220
> 8mths	306	8	777	18	1083	13	<0.001
Don’t know	1030	27	951	23	1981	25	0.124
Knows DOTS	1059	28	1094	26	2153	27	0.043
**Knows DOTS is free	847	80	957	87	1804	22	<0.001
****Heard of TB	3822	84	4211	88	8033	100	<0.001

*Multiple response, **Among those who knew DOTs, ***Chi-square test for comparison of proportions,****Respondents for baseline and midline are 4652 and 4804 respectively. Project is raising awareness on drug sensitive as well as drug resistant tuberculosis and the treatment duration are 6-8 months and >8 months are considered correct

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