Socio-demographic Profile of Patients Registered under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in Pune City.

Abstract

Introduction: Tuberculosis is called Social Disease because of the prevalence of various social factors like poverty,illiteracy,ignorance, poor standard of living, overcrowding etc.which are all inter-related and contribute to the prevalence of disease. Objectives: The present study was carried out to assess the Socio-demographic profile of patients registered under RNTCP Programme of India and to correlate sociodemographic characteristics of study participants with their current health status. Methods: All TB patients who had been registered during the period of 1^st January 2007 to 31^st December 2007 under RNTCP were included as study participants. All the participants along with their addresses were contacted by door-to-door visit. Relevant information about sociodemographic characteristics of participants, detailed information regarding present complaints and its duration, past history and family history pertaining to tuberculosis was recorded in pretested and structured proforma. History of risk habits like tobacco, smoking, alcohol with their duration and frequency was also noted. Statistical analysis like Chi-Square test, Monte-Carlo Chi-Square test was carried out by using analysis tool pack from Epi-Info 7 and SPSS 15 statistical package. Results: Out of 861 registered participants in the year 2007, only 328(38.09%) participants could be actually traced. there was significant association between habits of participants and their study outcome. Conclusion: there was significant association between habits of participants and their study outcome. However significant association was not observed between age, sex, religion, occupation, education, marital status, family size, family members, overcrowding, ventilation, socioeconomic class and study outcome of participants.