Table 1 Clinical and demographic characteristics of the study population
Characteristic | North (n = 219) | Northeast (n = 346) | Southeast (n = 491) | South (n = 259) | Center West (n = 217) | Total (n = 1532) | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age, median [IQR] | 38.0 [23.0, 48.0] | 36.0 [26.0, 51.0] | 36.0 [26.0, 49.0] | 38.0 [25.0, 53.0] | 36.0 [27.0, 48.0] | 37.0 [25.0, 49.0] | 0.90 |
Male gender | 110 (50.2% [49.4, 51.0]) | 172 (49.7% [48.7, 50.7]) | 243 (49.5% [48.8, 50.1]) | 129 (49.8% [49.1, 50.5]) | 106 (48.8% [47.0, 50.7]) | 760 (49.6% [49.2, 50.0]) | 0.99 |
Self-reported ethnicitya | < 0.001 | ||||||
Brown (Pardo) | 123 (56.9% [49.3, 64.3]) | 161 (46.8% [41.5, 52.2]) | 191 (39.7% [35.2, 44.4]) | 57 (22.2% [15.6, 30.6]) | 110 (51.2% [44.4, 57.9]) | 642 (41.0% [38.2, 43.8]) | |
Black | 17 (7.9% [4.5, 13.4]) | 80 (23.3% [17.8, 29.7]) | 79 (16.4% [12.8, 20.8]) | 37 (14.4% [9.7, 20.8]) | 35 (16.3% [12.0, 21.7]) | 248 (17.4% [15.0, 20.1]) | |
White | 43 (19.9% [15.3, 25.5]) | 57 (16.6% [12.4, 21.8]) | 155 (32.2% [27.8, 37.0]) | 156 (60.7% [52.9, 68.0]) | 42 (19.5% [14.8, 25.3]) | 453 (30.5% [27.9, 33.3]) | |
Indigenous | 15 (6.9% [4.3, 11.1]) | 9 (2.6% [1.3, 5.2]) | 17 (3.5% [1.9, 6.4]) | 1 (0.4% [0.1, 2.8]) | 6 (2.8% [1.4, 5.5]) | 48 (3.0% [2.1, 4.3]) | |
Asian | 17 (7.9% [5.1, 12.0]) | 27 (7.8% [6.0, 10.2]) | 35 (7.3% [5.1, 10.3]) | 6 (2.3% [1.2, 4.7]) | 19 (8.8% [5.0, 15.2]) | 104 (6.8% [5.6, 8.3]) | |
Urban residence | 169 (77.2% [51.6, 91.5]) | 272 (78.6% [59.1, 90.3]) | 453 (92.3% [78.1, 97.5]) | 235 (90.7% [68.4, 97.8]) | 193 (88.9% [63.6, 97.4]) | 1322 (87.1% [79.4, 92.1]) | < 0.001 |
Poor Family Economic Situationb | 122 (56.0% [48.0, 63.6]) | 215 (63.2% [58.2, 68.0]) | 250 (51.7% [46.4, 56.8]) | 113 (44.0% [39.2, 48.9]) | 97 (46.4% [40.1, 52.8]) | 797 (53.6% [50.7, 56.4]) | < 0.001 |
Education | 0.002 | ||||||
None | 2 (0.9% [0.2, 3.5]) | 12 (3.6% [2.0, 6.5]) | 10 (2.1% [1.1, 3.8]) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.9% [0.8, 4.7]) | 28 (2.1% [1.4, 3.1]) | |
Primary | 42 (19.3% [14.4, 25.3]) | 103 (30.9% [26.4, 35.8]) | 110 (22.7% [18.3, 27.9]) | 56 (21.8% [16.0, 28.9]) | 50 (24.3% [17.4, 32.7]) | 361 (24.6% [22.0, 27.5]) | |
Secondary | 155 (71.1% [65.5, 76.1]) | 201 (60.4% [55.5, 65.1]) | 319 (65.9% [61.5, 70.1]) | 172 (66.9% [59.9, 73.3]) | 132 (64.1% [55.8, 71.6]) | 979 (64.8% [62.2, 67.4]) | |
Post-secondary | 19 (8.7% [5.0, 14.7]) | 17 (5.1% [3.1, 8.4]) | 45 (9.3% [6.9, 12.5]) | 29 (11.3% [7.7, 16.2]) | 20 (9.7% [6.4, 14.5]) | 130 (8.5% [7.0, 10.2]) | |
Received TB stigma questions | 121 (55.3% [47.6, 62.7]) | 182 (52.6% [47.3, 57.8]) | 243 (49.5% [45.1, 53.9]) | 131 (50.6% [44.9, 56.2]) | 111 (51.2% [43.3, 59.0]) | 788 (51.0% [48.4, 53.7]) | 0.68 |