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Table 1 Cohort demographic, clinical, psychosocial and economic characteristics at baseline by site

From: Psychological distress and its relationship with non-adherence to TB treatment: a multicentre study

 

Gugulethu TB clinic (Cape Town, South Africa)

Mabvuku polyclinc (Harare, Zimbabwe)

Kanyama TB clinic (Lusaka, Zambia)

St. Mary’s day clinic (Durban, South Africa)

Ifisi day clinic (Mbeya, Tanzania)

Overall

Number of patients

419

400

400

200

83

1502

Demographic and clinical information

Age [median (IQR)]

39 (31–49)

38 (32–45)

35 (30–41)

37 (30–50)

37 (31–54)

37 (30–46)

Male (%)

259 (62)

185 (46)

269 (67)

104 (52)

42 (51)

859 (57)

Previously had TB (%)

178 (43)

67 (17)

85 (21)

52 (26)

2 (1)

384 (26)

HIV-infecteda (%)

133 (32)

324 (81)

268 (67)

121 (61)

49 (59)

895 (60)

TB symptom score [TBscore; median (IQR)]

4 (3–5)

4 (3–5)

5 (4–7)

5 (4–6)

7 (4–9)

 

Culture-confirmed TB cases (%)

74 (18)

77 (19)

152 (38)

35 (18)

29 (35)

367 (24)

Kessler K-10 score

      

 Median (IQR)e

20 (16–24)

30 (25–35)

16 (10–24)

18 (15–22)

29 (23–33)

22 (16–29)

 Graded as severe (≥30) (%)

31/413 (8)

201/400 (50)

49/399 (12)

16/199 (8)

38/74 (51)

335 (22)

Substance use

Tobacco smoker (%)

249 (60)

32 (8)

92 (23)

48 (24)

9 (11)

430 (28)

Alcohol consumptionb (%)

      

 Never

74 (18)

252 (63)

205 (51)

119 (60)

48 (58)

698 (47)

 Social

169 (40)

86 (22)

67 (17)

49 (25)

5 (6)

376 (25)

 Regular

120 (29)

60 (15)

82 (21)

18 (9)

30 (36)

310 (21)

 Heavy

20 (5)

2 (1)

46 (12)

0 (0)

0 (0)

68 (5)

Educational and psychosocial characteristics

Educational levelc (%)

      

 None

7 (2)

0 (0)

35 (9)

14 (7)

28 (34)

84 (6)

 Primary school

65 (16)

95 (24)

178 (45)

30 (15)

46 (55)

414 (28)

 Middle school

249 (59)

91 (23)

6 (2)

51 (26)

0 (0)

397 (26)

 High School

3 (1)

17 (5)

164 (41)

44 (22)

2 (2)

230 (15)

 Intermediate or post-high school diploma

20 (5)

52 (13)

17 (4)

60 (30)

7 (8)

156 (10)

 Graduate or post-graduate

1 (0)

11 (3)

1 (0)

6 (3)

0 (0)

19 (1)

TB health literacy scored [median (IQR)]

7 (5–9)

5 (4–7)

7 (4–9)

7 (5–9)

2 (1–4)

6 (4–8)

Economic characteristics

Unemployed or retiredf (%)

280 (67)

257 (64)

144 (36)

88 (44)

55 (66)

824 (55)

Personal monthly incomeg (%)

      

 Tier 1

271 (65)

222 (56)

87 (22)

22 (11)

37 (45)

639 (43)

 Tier 2

124 (30)

104 (26)

125 (31)

102 (51)

18 (22)

473 (32)

 Tier 3

16 (4)

44 (11)

25 (6)

23 (12)

1 (1)

109 (7)

 Tier 4

3 (<1)

3 (<1)

0 (0)

10 (5)

5 (6)

21 (1)

Household monthly incomeg (%)

      

 Tier 1

209 (50)

123 (31)

87 (22)

22 (11)

38 (46)

479 (32)

 Tier 2

170 (41)

165 (41)

121 (30)

98 (49)

32 (39)

586 (39)

 Tier 3

28 (7)

80 (20)

26 (7)

26 (13)

1 (1)

161 (11)

 Tier 4

5 (1)

31 (8)

0 (0)

11 (6)

5 (6)

52 (4)

  1. Abbreviation: IQR, interquartile range
  2. a18 patients (1 %) were of unknown HIV status
  3. b50 patients (3 %) had an unknown level of alcohol consumption
  4. c18 patients (%) had missing level of education data
  5. d26 patients (2 %) did not have sufficient data to compute a TB health literacy score
  6. e7 (<1 %) of patients did not have sufficient data to compute a Kessler K-10 score
  7. f4 patients (<1 %) were missing information about their employment status
  8. gThe monthly income tiers correspond to Under 600 ZAR, 600–3000 ZAR, 3001–7000 ZAR, and More than 7000 ZAR for the South African sites, and Under 100 US$, 100–300 US$, 301–700 US$, and More than 701 US$ for the other sites, respectively. 22 (2 %) patients were missing data about their personal income, and 7 (1 %) were missing data about household income
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