Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics and distribution of the various time delays among the participants*
Characteristic | Patients, No. (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Age, mean (SD), y | 30.7 (9.4) | ||
Sex | |||
Male | 132 (57.1) | ||
Female | 99 (42.9) | ||
Hospital admission status | |||
Hospitalised | 72 (25.5) | ||
Outpatients | 159 (74.5) | ||
Highest education level attained | |||
None | 21 (9.1) | ||
Primary school | 118 (51.1) | ||
Secondary | 58 (25.1) | ||
Post-secondary | 13 (5.6) | ||
Tertiary | 21 (9.1) | ||
No. of persons in Household | |||
(1) | 24 (10.4) | ||
(>1) | 207 (89.6) | ||
Weekly Alcohol consumption | |||
Daily | 35 (15.2) | ||
Sometimes | 47 (20.3) | ||
Rarely | 26 (11.3) | ||
Never | 123 (53.2) | ||
Main Occupation | |||
Subsistence farming | 28 (12.1) | ||
Unskilled workers | 115 (49.8) | ||
Skilled workers | 56 (24.2) | ||
Students | 20 (8.7) | ||
Unemployed | 12 (5.2) | ||
Medical expenditure on TB related symptoms, US $ | |||
0–29 | 123 (53.2) | ||
>29 | 108 (46.8) | ||
Distance from home to treatment centre, km | |||
<25 | 197 (85.3) | ||
>25 | 34 (14.7) | ||
Distribution of the time delays | |||
Patient delay | Health service delay | Total delay | |
Median, wk | 1.0 | 9.0 | 12.0 |
Interquartile Range, wk | 0.9–4.0 | 5.3–15.3 | 8.0–20.0 |
Delay >2 wk | 70 (30.3) | 207 (89.6) | 231 (100) |
Delay >4 wk | 40 (14.7) | 188 (81.4) | 210 (90.9) |