Research Article
Survival Analysis of Loss to Follow-Up Treatment among Tuberculosis Patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia
Table 2
Chi-square analysis of factors related to TB treatment outcome (censor or LTFU) at JUSH, Ethiopia.
| Variables | TB outcome | Chi-square ( value) | Censor | LTFU |
| Address of the patients | | | | Urban | 413 (87.5%) | 59 (12.5%) | 5.74 (0.017) | Rural | 28 (73.7%) | 10 (26.3%) | Sex | | | | Male | 301 (87.8%) | 42 (12.2%) | 1.48 (0.224) | Female | 140 (83.8%) | 27 (16.2%) | Smear result | | | | Negative | 183 (91.0%) | 18 (9.0%) | 3.2 (0.052) | Positive | 133 (84.2%) | 25 (15.8%) | Types of TB | | | | S (+) PTB | 137 (89.5%) | 16 (10.5%) | 2.92 (0.232) | S (−) PTB | 178 (86.8%) | 27 (13.2%) | EPTB | 126 (82.9%) | 26 (17.1%) | HIV test/result | | | | Negative | 315 (89.0%) | 39 (11.0%) | 10.87 (0.004) | Positive | 88 (77.2%) | 26 (22.8%) | Unknown | 38 (90.5%) | 4 (9.5%) | Weight loss | | | | No | 335 (94.4%) | 20 (5.6%) | 4.33 (0.037) | Yes | 41 (85.4%) | 7 (14.6%) |
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Key: S (+) PTB: smear-positive pulmonary TB, S (−) PTB: smear-negative pulmonary TB, and ETBP: extrapulmonary TB.
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