Sputum Positive Tuberculosis Patients Attending OPD of Chest Diseases Hospital, Rajshahi and Associated Factors

Tuberculosis and Respiratory diseases

Abstract This cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among the patients attending outpatient department of chest diseases hospital. Rajshahi with a view to explore the proportion of sputum positive tuberculosis and the relationship with socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents. A total of 350 respondents were interviewed and their sputum test result was recorded from hospital reports. The respondents were selected purposively. Data were collected from the respondents by face to face interview according to a partially structured questionnaire. The mean age of the respondents was 41.49 (SD ± 17.12) years. Majority of the respondents (38.3%) had secondary or higher secondary education and a large no. of them (25.1%) was farmer followed by day laborer (21.4%) and house wives (20.3%). The average monthly income of the family was taka 7711.43 (SD ±2588.19). The average weight of the respondents was (43.01±5.69kg and maximum of them (77.1%) had weight in the range of 35 to 49 kg. Similarly mean BMI of the respondents was 17.03±2.34 and maximum of them (75.1%) had BMI <18.5, which was considered as mal nutrition. Majority of the respondents (75.14%) belonged to joint family. Among the respondents, the prevalence (relative percentage) of sputum positive tuberculosis was 15.14% and that of suspected pulmonary tuberculosis was found significantly associated with type of family (p<0.05) but not associated with sex (p>0.05),type of housing (p>0.05), monthly family income (p>0.05) and educational status (P>0.05). This study provided some important information which might help the concerned people to take appropriate measures and might be the basis for further in depth study on this issue.

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