Research Article
Multiresistant Bacterial Pathogens Causing Bacterial Pneumonia and Analyses of Potential Risk Factors from Northeast Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics and clinical data of pneumonia suspected patients, Dessie, 2020.
| Characteristics | Frequency | Percentage (%) |
| Sex | | | Male | 221 | 54.4 | Female | 185 | 45.6 |
| Age (in years) | | | 5–14 | 30 | 7.4 | 15–24 | 57 | 14.0 | 25–44 | 96 | 23.6 | 45–64 | 67 | 27.6 | >64 | 156 | 38.4 |
| Residence | | | Urban | 249 | 61.3 | Rural | 157 | 38.7 |
| Educational level | | | Unable to read and write | 158 | 38.9 | Read and write only | 48 | 11.8 | Primary education | 56 | 13.8 | Secondary education | 67 | 16.5 | College and above | 77 | 19.0 |
| Marital status | | | Married | 187 | 46.1 | Single | 107 | 26.4 | Divorced | 70 | 17.2 | Widowed | 42 | 10.3 |
| Occupational status | | | Employed | 49 | 12.1 | Unemployed | 120 | 29.6 | Farmer | 161 | 39.7 | Others | 76 | 18.7 |
| HIV | | | Positive | 43 | 10.6 | Negative | 383 | 89.4 |
| TB | | | Positive | 39 | 9.6 | Negative | 385 | 90.4 |
| Asthma | | | Yes | 23 | 6.0 | No | 383 | 94.0 |
| Diabetes | | | Yes | 20 | 5.0 | No | 386 | 95.5 |
| Hypertension | | | Yes | 13 | 3.0 | No | 393 | 93.0 | Total | 406 | 100 |
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