Research Article
Factors Associated with Treatment Delay among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Public and Private Health Facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Table 2
Clinical characteristics and health seeking behavior pulmonary TB patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2012.
| | Patient characteristics | Number (%) |
| | TB category | | | Smear positive | 241 (56.7) | | Smear negative | 184 (43.3) | | Type of symptom | | | Cough | 411 (96.7) | | Loss of appetite | 351 (82.6) | | Fever | 347 (81.6) | | Night sweating | 286 (67.3) | | Chest pain | 263 (61.9) | | Haemoptysis | 168 (39.5) | | Loss of weight | 49 (11.5) | | HIV status | | | Positive | 105 (24.7) | | Negative | 320 (75.3) | | Contact history in the last 1 year | | | Yes | 96 (22.6) | | No | 329 (77.4) | | Self-treatment | | | Yes | 149 (35.1) | | No | 276 (64.9) | | Point of the first contact | | | Public health facility | 218 (51.3) | | Private health facility | 134 (31.5) | | Drug outlets | 45 (11.5) | | Traditional healer | 28 (6.5) | | Severity of disease at the 1st contact | | | Working | 334 (78.6) | | Ambulatory | 86 (20.2) | | Bed ridden | 5 (1.2) | | Services obtained at the 1st contact | | | Advice only | 6 (1.4) | | Sputum is taken for examination | 186 (43.8) | | X-ray examination | 199 (46.8) | | Non-Anti TB drug given | 302 (71.1) | | Referred to a higher level | 1 (0.2) | | Total number of health-seeking encounters before diagnosis | | | One | 151 (35.5) | | Two | 196 (46.1) | | More than two | 78 (18.4) | | Place of diagnosis | | | Public health facility | 263 (61.8) | | Private health facility | 162 (38.2) |
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