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Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
Dispatch

Pretreatment Out-of-Pocket Expenses for Presumptive Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients, India, 2016–2017

Priya RathiComments to Author , Kalpita Shringarpure, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Vishak Acharya, Abirami Nair, Karuna D. Sagili, and Suresh Shastri
Author affiliations: Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India (P. Rathi, B. Unnikrishnan, V. Acharya, A. Nair); Medical College Baroda, Baroda, India (K. Shringarpure); Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu, India (V.K. Chadha); National Tuberculosis Institute, Epidemiology and Research, Division Bengaluru, India (V.K. Chadha); International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South East Asia Office, New Delhi, India (K.D. Sagili); Lady Willington State TB Centre, Bengaluru (S. Shastri)

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Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of 40 MDR TB patients treated at PMDT Centre, Mangalore, India, August 2016–April 2017*

Characteristic No. (%)
Sex
M 28 (70)
F
 12 (30)
Education
Illiterate 5 (12.5)
Primary school 15 (37.5)
Secondary school 14 (35.0)
Graduation/professional course
 6 (15.0)
Type of occupation
Salaried job 13 (32.5)
Daily wage 9 (22.5)
Business owner 5 (12.5)
Homemaker 8 (20.0)
Other†
 5 (12.5)
Place of residence
Urban 12 (30.0)
Rural
 28 (70.0)
Socioeconomic status†
Upper class 6 (15.0)
Upper-middle class 14 (35.0)
Middle class 8 (20.0)
Lower-middle class 7 (17.5)
Lower-class
 5 (12.5)
Health facility sequence where MDR TB diagnosis made
First 23 (57.5)
Second 14 (35.0)
Third 3 (7.5)
Fourth
 0
Type of healthcare facility visited by patients before PMDT
Private 24 (60)
Public 16 (40)

*MDR TB, multidrug-resistant TB; PMDT, programmatic management of drug-resistant TB; TB, tuberculosis.
†Modified BG Prasad Classification (https://www.ijcmph.com/index.php/ijcmph/article/view/1242/1005).

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