Socio Demographic Analysis of the Tuberculosis Patients Associated with Anaemia.

Abstract

Bangladesh is one of the endemic region of Tuberculosis and Anaemia is a common complication of pulmonary tuberculosis. Environmental factors such as lacking of health hygienic, poor sanitation, water, food habits, living area, malnutrition, lack of medical care etc. are mainly associated with anaemia in TB. The major objective of this study was to determine different risk factors that are associated with Anaemia in Tuberculosis patients. The study was done at the general ward in National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In this study 32 cases of TB patients were taken from the pulmonary TB patients who were infected or suspected to be infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection and blood sample were collected from them. This study gives the brief description of the demographic data of the studied patients including their age, sex, religion, living condition and area, working place, coughing condition, smoking condition and their height and weight. It was found that among the patients 65% were male and 35% were female, indicating that male patient were more prone to the disease than female patients. Majority of the patients belonged to the age group of 18-28 years (75%), followed by 29-39 years (67%), and ~ 40 years (35%). About 78% were unmarried and widowed and 79% were married. The study also shows that among the 23 patients 67% were uneducated/others and among the educated patients there where 44% people have education level between class 1-5, 67% between class 6-10 and 9% between class 10-Higher educations. The data indicates that among the patients there are 95% day labour, 82% employed, 75% bussinessmen & others and 50% housewife & unemployed. 79% have their monthly expenditure between 2500-15000 Tk. and 75% have between 2500-9000 Tk. Among them 83% live in Village, 78% in city, 67% in rural area and 100% in the slum area. Among studied tuberculosis patient 60% people have never smoked, 87% are currently smoking and 80% have smoked before & occasionally. The study also shows the coughing condition of the patients where 80% people have coughing problem before getting tuberculosis infection, 75% people don't. In the study 89% people are new smear positive, 50% people are new smear negative and 87% of people are relapse case and are infected because of previous treatment failure. The result of the study showed that different factors are also associated with anaemia in tuberculosis along with the major cause.