Research Article
Patient Delay in Initiating Tuberculosis Treatment and Associated Factors in Oromia Special Zone, Amhara Region
Table 2
Characteristics of tuberculosis patients in DOTs clinics of Oromia zone, Northeast Ethiopia, 2018.
| Variables | Frequency () | Percent |
| Sex | | | Male | 223 | 57.6 | Female | 164 | 42.4 | Age | | | 18-34 | 226 | 58.4 | 35-50 | 98 | 25.3 | ≥51 | 63 | 16.3 | Place of residence | | | Rural | 206 | 53.2 | Urban | 181 | 46.8 | Marital status | | | Married | 194 | 50.1 | Single | 150 | 38.8 | Divorced | 23 | 5.9 | Widowed | 20 | 5.2 | Educational status | | | Did not have any schooling level | 203 | 52.2 | Did have basic schooling level | 69 | 17.8 | Primary | 57 | 14.8 | Secondary | 36 | 9.3 | College/university | 22 | 5.7 | Religion | | | Muslim | 317 | 81.9 | Orthodox | 47 | 12.1 | Protestant | 23 | 5.9 | Ethnic group | | | Oromia | 249 | 64.3 | Amhara | 136 | 34.9 | Tigre | 3 | 0.8 |
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