Table 1 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Hunan province
Variables | Frequency (%) |
|---|---|
Gender | |
 Female | 326 (26.1) |
 Male | 922 (73.9) |
Age | |
  < 15 | 26 (2.1) |
 15–24 | 174 (13.9) |
 25–44 | 277 (22.2) |
 45–64 | 506 (40.6) |
  >  = 65 | 265 (21.2) |
Year of diagnosis | |
 2013 | 44 (3.5) |
 2014 | 63 (5.1) |
 2015 | 186 (14.9) |
 2016 | 301 (24.1) |
 2017 | 271 (21.7) |
 2018 | 383 (30.7) |
Current address | |
 Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan | 37 (3.0) |
 From Hunan, but outside Changsha | 1,151 (92.2) |
 From another province of mainland China | 53 (4.3) |
 From Changsha | 7 (0.5) |
Occupation | |
 Children and students | 42 (3.4) |
 Government employees | 23 (1.8) |
 Farmers | 990 (79.3) |
 Housekeepers | 89 (7.1) |
 Privately employee | 19 (1.5) |
 Retired | 58 (4.7) |
 Othersa | 27 (2.2) |
Ethnicity | |
 Han | 1,149 (92.0) |
 Dong | 11 (0.9) |
 Miao | 22 (1.8) |
 Tujia | 54 (4.3) |
 Yao | 7 (0.6) |
 Othersb | 5 (0.40) |
Patient source | |
 Health check | 11 (0.9) |
 Recommended for consultation due to symptoms | 11 (0.9) |
 Referral | 393 (31.5) |
 Seeking consultation due to symptoms | 385 (30.9) |
 Identified through contact tracing | 448 (35.8) |
Detainees | |
 No | 1,242 (99.5) |
 Yes | 6 (0.5) |
Treatment category | |
 New treatment | 1,037 (83.1) |
 Retreatment | 211 (16.9) |
1st diagnosis institution type | |
 Communicable disease control | 998 (80.7) |
 General hospital | 224 (18.1) |
 Specialist hospital | 1 (0.1) |
 TB dispensary | 14 (1.1) |
Severely ill | |
 No | 1,197 (95.9) |
 Yes | 51 (4.1) |