Table 1 Baseline socio-demographic characteristics of Tb/HIV co-infected patients at JUTH, Southwest Ethiopia, 2013
From: Predictors of mortality in a cohort of tuberculosis/HIV co-infected patients in Southwest Ethiopia
Variable (n = 272) | Value | Number | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Age (in years) | 15–24 | 38 | 13.9 |
25–34 | 140 | 51.5 | |
35–44 | 69 | 25.4 | |
> = 45 | 25 | 9.2 | |
Sex | Male | 114 | 41.9 |
Female | 158 | 58.1 | |
Occupation | Government employed | 48 | 17.7 |
NGO* | 46 | 16.9 | |
Farmer | 80 | 29.4 | |
Daily labor | 86 | 31.6 | |
Commercial Sex Worker | 12 | 4.4 | |
Educational status | Illiterate | 81 | 29.8 |
Read and write | 51 | 18.8 | |
Formal education | 140 | 51.4 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 76 | 27.9 |
Muslim | 134 | 49.3 | |
Protestant | 50 | 18.4 | |
Catholic | 12 | 4.4 | |
Marital status | Married | 165 | 60.7 |
Single | 58 | 21.3 | |
Divorced | 36 | 13.2 | |
Widowed | 13 | 4.8 | |
Residence | Urban | 189 | 69.5 |
Rural | 83 | 30.5 | |
Number of people living with | <5 | 210 | 77.2 |
> = 5 | 62 | 22.8 | |
Water | Yes | 207 | 76.1 |
No | 65 | 23.9 | |
Electricity | Yes | 207 | 76.1 |
No | 65 | 23.9 | |
Room | 1 | 121 | 44.5 |
2 | 110 | 40.4 | |
3 | 31 | 11.4 | |
4 | 10 | 3.7 |