TB CATEGORY

Objective: To determine the risk factors for type of TB category in Multan.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Nishtar Medical College and Hospital,Multan at Chest and Pulmonology Ward to explore the major factors for the type of TB in Multan,Pakistan. We surveyed 164 patients diagnosed for TB from March 2012 to August 2012. The chisquaretest was used to find the responsible factors for type of TB category. The data wereanalyzed by using SPSS 20 software. Results: The mean age of these patients was 40.5,100male and 64 female patients. 68.9% of cat-1 and 31.1% patients of Cat-2, 65.3% patients havingno education, 35.4% patients were of labor profession working in different scenarios, 76.8%patients have their family income less than ten thousands, 67.7% patients belong to the urbanresidence, 65.2% patients have poor sanitary condition of their houses, 63.41% patients weresmoker and 70.1% patients have TB in their families. On the basis of p-value for each factors, wehave found that blood pressure (p=0.0100), already treated (p=0.0000), doctor visited(p=0.0000), smoking habit (p=0.0263) and area (p=0.0020) of patients are statisticallysignificant factors while gender (p=0.7040), Education (p=0.0800), family history (p=0.3090),current ATT period (p=0.7280), weight (p=0.1300), environment (p=0.2590), income level(p=0.3690), profession (p=0.0540) and age (p=0.4130) are the insignificant factors.Conclusions: We have found that blood pressure, already treated, doctor visited, smoking habitand area of patients are the significant factors for type of TB category.