Are free anti-tuberculosis drugs enough? An empirical study from three cities in China

Table 4 Direct and indirect costs as % of household income of TB patients*

	Compliant		Non-compliant		p-value**	p-value***
	Mean	Median [IQR]	Mean	Median [IQR]	p-value**	p-value***
TOOP	71.74	20[7.67–50]	248.89	36.25[15.83–158.33]	0.001	0.006
OOP2	47.33	13.12[5.17–37.35]	164.43	20.23[7.91–93.66]	<0.001	0.058
TLF	8.38	1.63[0.32–6.52]	49.17	6.29[2–22.5]	0.001	0.003
IncFor	1.96	0[0–0]	0.44	0[0–0]	0.874	0.697
DSC	2.46	1[0.5–2.26]	4.67	4.29[2.04–6.94]	0.009	0.019
Household income	31336.52	22000[8000–41000]	19681.94	7860[2000–24500]	0.056	<0.001

*The variable is same with variable shown in Tables 3 and 5, but have not been transformed into categorical variable
**This value calculated by ANOVA based on log transformation
***This value calculated by ANCOVA based on log transformation, the covariate was Age, UEBMI, URBMI, and Education

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