The Presence of Cough and Tuberculosis: Active Case Finding Outcomes in the Philippines

Table 1

(a) General demographics at each step of the TB Screening Program.

	Stage 1: Suspected Cases (N= 2696)		Stage 2: Needed Referral (N=1290)		Stage 3: Attended RHU (N=333)		TB Positive; (N=53)
	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)
% of prior stage	2696/4635	58.2	1290/2696	47.8	333/1290	26	53/333	15.9
Female	1476	0.6	689	0.5	187	0.6	28	0.5
Male	1220	0.5	601	0.5	146	0.4	25	0.5
Registered in PhilHealth^1	1420	0.5	694	0.5	172	0.5	30	0.6
	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)	Mean	(SD)
Average Age	37.7	21.4	36.5	22.4	38.2	23.2	44.9	18.5
Average Household Size	4.8	2.4	4.8	2.4	4.6	2.5	5	2.8
Average Household Income (PHP per person per day)	22.9	25.8	20.4	20.3	20.7	22.1	18.6	10.2

¹PhilHealth is the Philippine government-owned nation health insurance program.

(b) Demographic characteristics of referred and not referred participants

Characteristic	Referred RHU; (n = 1290)		Not referred; (n = 1406)		P-value	Significance
	mean	SD	mean	SD	For difference in means
Age	36.5	22.9	27.3	23.1	<0.001
Child	5.4	4.0	5.2	3.8	0.6338
Adult	46.6	16.5	43.5	17.2	<0.001
HH.size	4.8	2.4	4.9	2.2	0.1859
HH.income	2649.3	2570.6	3353.6	3571.6	<0.001
	Number	Denominator	Number	Denominator	For difference in proportions
Male	601	2116	1515	2116	<0.001
Female	689	2519	1830	2519	<0.001
Phil. health	694	4635	1865	4635	<0.001

P value of <0.001 was considered to be statistically highly significant.