Socio-cultural features and help-seeking preferences for leprosy and tuberculosis: a cultural epidemiological study in a tribal district of Maharashtra, India

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents by disease conditions, FHS-Non-traditional vs Traditional and FHS-Public vs Private

		Disease condition			FHS - Non traditional vs Traditional			FHS - Public vs Private
Characteristics	No. of respondents	Leprosy (n = 100) (%)	TB(n = 50) (%)	p - value	Non - traditonal (n = 135) (%)	Traditonal (n = 15) (%)	p - value	Public (n = 91) (%)	Private (n = 59)(%)	p - value
Age (in years)				0.908			0.744			0.481
<=32	76	67.1	32.9		90.8	9.2		57.9	42.1
>32	74	66.2	33.8		89.2	10.8		63.5	36.5
Gender				0.246			0.512			0.275
Male	68	61.8	38.2		88.2	11.8		55.9	44.1
Female	82	70.7	29.3		91.5	8.5		64.6	35.4
Education				0.011			0.744			0.333
Illiterate	76	76.3	23.7		90.8	9.2		64.5	35.5
Literate	74	56.8	43.2		89.2	10.8		56.8	43.2
Material Status				0.765			0.806			0.734
Unmarried	17	58.8	41.2		94.1	5.9		52.9	47.1
Married	121	67.8	32.2		89.3	10.7		61.2	38.8
Widowed/Divorced/Separated/Cohabiting	12	66.7	33.3		91.7	8.3		66.7	33.3
Occupation					0.135		0.561			0.292
Labourer	60	70.0	30.0		88.3	11.7		58.3	41.7
Cultivator/Land Owner	59	71.2	28.8		93.2	6.8		67.8	32.2
Others	31	51.6	48.4		87.1	12.9		51.6	48.4
Tribal Status				0.015			0.461			0.204
Tribal	131	70.2	29.8		89.3	10.7		62.6	37.4
Nontribal	19	42.1	57.9		94.7	5.3		47.4	52.6
Disease condition							0.001			<0.0001
Leprosy	100				96.0	4.0		75.0	25.0
TB	50				78.0	22.0		32.0	68.0

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