Table 2 Percentage of adult men and women in India responding as ‘yes’ to questions about tuberculosis transmission
Men (N = 68,391) | Women (N = 109,032) | Overall (N = 177,423) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | How does tuberculosis spread from one person to another? | |||
a)Through the air when coughing or sneezing | 56.3 | 55.0 | 55.5 | |
b)Through food | 28.7 | 34.9 | 32.4 | |
c)Through sharing utensils | 16.0 | 19.7 | 18.2 | |
d)Through touching a person with TB | 11.8 | 12.7 | 12.3 | |
e)Through sexual contact | 5.9 | 5.0 | 5.3 | |
f)Through mosquito bites | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.6 | |
g)Blood/blood transfusions | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | |
h)Through smoking bidis/cigarette/tobacco | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
i)Through sharing clothes/bed sheets/towel | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
j)Through spit/sputum/stepping on spit | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |
k)Others | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | |
l)Don’t know | 23.6 | 28.7 | 26.8 | |
2 | Can tuberculosis be cured? | 86.5 | 81.5 | 83.5 |
3 | If a member of your family got tuberculosis, would you want it to remain a secret from the neighbors or not? | 15.8 | 15.4 | 15.6 |