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

Table 4 Source and preferred sources of tuberculosis related information among general population in baseline (2010–11) and midline (2012–13) surveys in 30 districts in India

Variable	Baseline (n = 4652)		Midline (n = 4804)		Total (n = 9456)		p-value*
Variable	n	%	n	%	n	%
Source of TB related information
Television	1675	37	2697	56	4372	47	<0.001
Hospital doctors	1665	37	2055	43	3720	40	<0.001
Newspaper/magazine/hoarding/posters	1416	31	1730	36	3146	34	0.003
IPC	1233	27	2799	58	4032	43	<0.001
Radio	944	11	584	12	1528	16	0.54
Source of preferred TB related information
Television	2007	44	2942	61	4949	53	<0.001
Hospital doctors	2185	48	2565	53	4750	51	<0.001
News paper/magazine	1457	31	1176	24	2633	28	<0.001
IPC	2315	51	2916	60	5231	56	<0.001

IPC Interpersonal Communication, *Chi-square test for comparison of proportion

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