Research Article
Patient Health Seeking and Diagnostic Delay in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Hospital Based Study from Central India
Table 3
Health seeking practices of patients with various forms of extrapulmonary TB (N=1220).
| Variable
n (%) | Tuberculous lymphadenitis (n=698) | Pleural tuberculosis
(n=282) | Abdominal tuberculosis
(n=118) | Tuberculous meningitis
(n=54) | Other sites
(n=68) | P value |
| | Perceived seriousness of illness | | | | | | | | Yes | 322 (46) | 102 (36) | 65 (55) | 32 (59) | 23 (33) | 0.001 |
| | First treatment | | | | | | | | Self-medication | 334 (48) | 138 (49) | 63 (53) | 29 (54) | 39 (57) | 0.001 | | Non-allopathic/ | | | | | | | | traditional healer | 225 (32) | 67 (24) | 32 (27) | 04 (07) | 10 (15) | | | Pharmacy | 76 (11) | 28 (10) | 09 (07) | 05 (09) | 10 (15) | | | Allopathic | 63 (13) | 49 (17) | 14 (12) | 16 (27) | 09 (13) | |
| | First medical facility visited | | | | | | | | Regional hospital | 08 (01) | 02 (0.7) | 00 | 00 | 02 (03) | 0.579 | | District hospital | 110 (16) | 40 (14) | 16 (14) | 07 (13) | 10 (15) | | | Primary health care | 135 (19) | 70 (25) | 31 (26) | 14 (26) | 15 (22) | | | Private Hospital | 445 (64) | 170 (60) | 70 (60) | 33 (61) | 41 (60) | |
| | No. of facilities visited | | | | | | | | 1 | 17 (2) | 08 (2) | 02 (2) | 02 (4) | 00 | 0.001 | | 2 | 198 (28) | 23 (8) | 12 (11) | 04 (8) | 04 (6) | | | 3-4 | 429 (61) | 173 (61) | 84 (71) | 45 (83) | 34 (50) | | | >4 | 54 (7) | 78 (28) | 20 (17) | 03 (5) | 30 (44) | |
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