Research Article
Awareness of the Warning Signs, Risk Factors, and Treatment for Tuberculosis among Urban Nigerians
Table 1
General characteristics of the study subjects.
| Characteristics | (%) |
| Age | 30 (23–40)* | Sex | | Male | 308 (53.7) | Female | 266 (46.6) | Education | | Primary/none | 150 (26.1) | Secondary | 148 (25.8) | Tertiary | 276 (48.1) | Income ()** | | <10,000 | 244 (42.5) | ≤50,000 | 206 (39.5) | ≤100,000 | 72 (12.5) | ≤200,000 | 26 (4.5) | >N200,000 | 22 (3.8) | Occupational class | | Professional/administrators | 21 (3.7) | Skilled | 32 (5.6) | Unskilled | 100 (17.4) | Others | 421 (73.3) | Marital status | | Married | 252 (43.9) | Others | 322 (56.1) | Religion | | Islam | 336 (58.5) | Christianity | 236 (41.1) | Others | 2 (0.3) | Aware of TB as a disease | | Aware | 459 (80.0) | Unaware | 115 (20.0) | Awareness of TB sign | | Aware | 410 (71.4) | Unaware | 164 (28.6) |
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*Median (interquartile range).
**4 missing.
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