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Table 2 Coverage of tuberculosis screening and its predictors at the individual household contact level in Phatthalung province, Thailand

From: Coverage of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus screening among household contacts of tuberculosis patients: a household-based cross-sectional survey from Southern Thailand

Characteristic

Sub-category

Total n (%)

Screened n (%)

Crude OR (95% CI)

p-value

Adjusted ORa (95% CI)

p-value

Total

 

174 (100.0)

81 (46.6)

    

Age groups (years)

<  18

52 (29.9)

20 (38.5)

Ref

 

Ref

 

18–34

27 (15.5)

12 (44.4)

0.8 (0.1–5.2)

0.819

2.7 (0.2–41.1)

0.468

35+

95 (54.6)

49 (51.6)

5.3 (1.4–20.4)

0.016

30.6 (2.0–466.0)

0.014

Sex

Male

56 (32.2)

25 (44.6)

0.5 (0.2–1.3)

0.143

–

–

Female

118 (67.8)

56 (47.5)

Ref

 

–

–

Education

None

16 (9.2)

6 (37.5)

Ref

 

–

–

Primary

73 (42.0)

32 (43.8)

1.6 (0.2–11.2)

0.625

–

–

Secondary

18 (10.3)

7 (38.9)

0.7 (0.1–7.1)

0.763

–

–

High

27 (15.5)

12 (44.4)

1.4 (0.2–12.8)

0.754

–

–

Vocational or non-formal

18 (10.3)

10 (55.6)

2.3 (0.2–24.5)

0.498

–

–

Bachelor+

22 (12.6)

14 (63.6)

8.7 (0.7–108.9)

0.094

–

–

Occupation

Unemployed

87 (50.0)

40 (46.0)

Ref

 

Ref

 

Employed

36 (20.7)

14 (38.9)

0.4 (0.1–1.7)

0.220

0.1 (0.0–0.8)

0.034

Business owner

25 (14.4)

12 (48.0)

1.9 (0.4–9.5)

0.432

0.4 (0.0–4.2)

0.443

Officer

26 (14.9)

15 (57.7)

2.9 (0.6–14.3)

0.203

0.8 (0.1–9.4)

0.870

Relationship with index case

Parent

19 (10.9)

10 (52.6)

Ref

 

–

–

Spouse

39 (22.4)

23 (59.0)

1.6 (0.1–20.7)

0.704

–

–

Offspring

53 (30.5)

27 (50.9)

0.4 (0.0–4.5)

0.490

–

–

Others

63 (36.2)

21 (33.3)

0.0 (0.0–0.5)

0.012

–

–

Sharing the same bedroom with index case

Yes

33 (19.0)

19 (57.6)

Ref

 

–

–

No

141 (81.0)

62 (44.0)

0.2 (0.0–0.9)

0.039

–

–

Duration of living in the same household (years)

<  5

30 (17.2)

19 (63.3)

Ref

 

Ref

 

≥ 5

139 (79.9)

62 (44.6)

0.2 (0.0–1.1)

0.066

0.1 (0.0–0.8)

0.036

No Data

5 (2.9)

0 (0.0)

–

–

–

–

Frequency of contacts with index case

Daily

152 (87.4)

76 (50.0)

Ref

 

–

–

More than daily

22 (12.6)

5 (22.7)

0.0 (0.0–0.4)

0.005

–

–

  1. TB tuberculosis, OR odds ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence interval;
  2. a Due to multicollinearity and small number of observations, two covariates, relationship with index case and frequency of contacts with index case were removed from the final model
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