Knowledge and attitudes towards ambulatory treatment of tuberculоsis in Kazakhstan

Darisheva, Meruyert; Tracy, Melissa; Terlikbayeva, Assel; Zhussupov, Baurzhan; Schluger, Neil; McCrimmon, Tara

doi:10.1186/s12913-020-05413-0

BMC Health Services Research

Table 2 Bivariate associations between positive attitude toward ambulatory TB treatment and participant characteristics (N = 1083)

From: Knowledge and attitudes towards ambulatory treatment of tuberculоsis in Kazakhstan

	Positive attitude toward ambulatory TB treatment (full or combined with hospitalization)^a
	Total			TB cases			Household controls			Community controls
	(N = 1083)			(N = 387)			(N = 342)			(N = 354)
Characteristic	n	%	p-value	n	%	p-value	n	%	p-value	n	%	p-value
Gender
Male	134	23.3	0.228	59	28.5	0.687	39	31.0	0.317	36	20.7	0.331
Female	134	26.4		48	26.7		56	25.9		30	16.7
Age, in years (Mean [SD])
18–29	77	24.4	0.911	45	28.5	0.897	18	23.1	0.719	14	17.5	0.969
30–39	69	25.6		25	26.3		25	29.4		19	21.1
40–49	54	22.9		16	24.2		22	26.2		16	18.6
50–59	50	25.4		16	29.6		22	30.1		12	17.1
≥ 60	18	28.1		5	35.7		8	36.4		5	17.9
Ethnicity
Kazakh	178	25.5	0.761	69	26.6	0.818	68	29.8	0.472	41	19.3	0.906
Russian	53	23.5		23	29.9		15	22.7		15	18.1
Others	37	23.4		15	29.4		12	25.0		10	16.9
Marital status
Married	180	24.1	0.460	65	27.0	0.702	76	28.6	0.540	39	16.3	0.093
Single	88	26.2		42	28.8		19	25.0		27	23.7
Level of education^b
Primary and secondary school	22	22.2	0.121	7	20.6	0.131	8	22.9	0.726	7	23.3	0.509
High school	86	21.5		37	24.2		30	25.4		19	14.7
Vocational education	104	28.8		45	35.2		37	30.6		22	19.6
Higher education	56	25.1		18	25.0		20	29.4		18	21.7
Current employment status
Employed	159	24.1	0.533	60	26.2	0.443	60	28.7	0.630	39	17.6	0.500
Unemployed	109	25.8		47	29.7		35	26.3		27	20.5
Currently in debt^c
No	179	26.2	0.145	39	28.7	0.739	30	20.8	0.014	20	16.7	0.494
Yes	89	22.3		68	27.1		65	32.8		46	19.7
Region
Almaty city	27	20.3	< 0.001	11	19.6	< 0.001	7	21.2	0.001	9	20.5	0.002
Almaty oblast	178	34.0		72	38.9		63	37.1		43	25.4
Kostanay oblast	63	14.8		24	16.4		25	18.0		14	9.9
High level of family support^d
No	73	36.0	< 0.001	26	39.4	0.019	27	40.3	0.011	20	28.6	0.017
Yes	195	22.2		81	25.2		68	24.7		46	16.2
High level of friend support^e
No	92	26.9	0.264	33	25.6	0.520	37	32.5	0.172	22	22.2	0.281
Yes	176	23.8		74	28.7		58	25.4		44	17.3
High level of support from significant other^f
No	62	34.6	0.001	21	38.2	0.059	23	36.5	0.087	18	29.5	0.017
Yes	206	22.8		86	25.9		72	25.8		48	16.4
Tuberculosis knowledge
Insufficient	96	20.3	0.003	32	25.6	0.534	40	24.5	0.202	24	13.0	0.004
Sufficient	172	28.2		75	28.6		55	30.7		42	24.9

^a Positive attitude toward ambulatory TB treatment is indicated by responses of “TB patients should be treated in hospital and then continue treatment at home” or “TB patients should be treated at home” to a question about how a newly diagnosed person with TB should be treated
^b “Primary and secondary school” reflect schooling up to grade 9, whereas “high school” reflects grades 10–11
^c Assessed with the question: “Are you currently in debt?”
^d High level of support is indicated by a score of 6 or more on the Family Subscale of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support
^e High level of support is indicated by a score of 6 or more on the Friends Subscale of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support
^f High level of support is indicated by a score of 6 or more on the Significant Other Subscale of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support

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