A study of the various environmental factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis at tertiary health care center
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Tuberculosis (TB), an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is a pandemic, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that one-third of the world's population is infected with the bacteria Aims and Objectives: To Study the various Environmental factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis at tertiary health care center. Methodology: This was a case –control study carried out at in the patients of Tuberculosis at the DOT centre of Rural Health Training centre under Department of Community Medicine of a tertiary health care centre during the one year period i.e. June 2017 to June 2018. With the written informed consent 53 TB patients were enrolled for the study randomly in the one year they were taken as Cases and similarly other patients attending the OPD for other illness were enrolled were 53 they considered Controls. The statistical analysis was done by unpaired t-test and chi-square test analyzed by SPSS 19 version software. Result: In our study we have found that the average age of Cases and Controls - 47 ± 4.57 and 48 ± 5.12 was comparable with each other (t=1.06,df=104,p>0.05); The male and female ratio was also comparable 1.52:1 and 1.94:1(χ2=0.3651,df=1,p>0.05). The environmental factors like Overcrowding [χ2=15.14,df=1,p<0.001, OR=4.93(2.15-11.24)] Indoor Smoking (χ2=6.0,df=1,p<0.01,OR=3.1 (2.15-1.2-8.0)] Source of Cooking (χ2=4.28 ,df=1,p<0.01,OR=3.1 (1.024 -9.503)] Cross Ventilation-(χ2=7.20,df=1,p<0.001,OR=3.16 (1.342 - 7.441)] were significantly associated with patients of Tuberculosis at tertiary. Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study that the environmental factors like Overcrowding, Indoor Smoking, Source of Cooking like Bifuels /Chullah, Absence of Cross Ventilation were significantly associated with patients of Tuberculosis at tertiary.
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S Chenna Krishna Reddy, Mohammad Rafi
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