%0 Journal Article
%T The indirect cost due to pulmonary Tuberculosis in patients receiving treatment in Bauchi State¡ªNigeria
%A Nisser Umar
%A Richard Fordham
%A Ibrahim Abubakar
%A Max Bachmann
%J Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1478-7547-10-6
%X A cross sectional study where 242 TB patients were sampled from 27 out of 67 facilities providing TB services in a north-eastern state of Nigeria. Sampling was stratified based on facility type, patients¡¯ HIV status and gender.The income lost among the hospitalized group was estimated at $156/patient and about $114 in the non-hospitalized patients group. Age, gender, facility of diagnosis, level of education and occupation were significant (p-values <0.05) associated with total (both patients and their households) income lost. However, AFB sputum-smear result and HIV status had no significant effects on the income lost. Hospitalised patients spent an average time of 924.98 hours for diagnosis and treatment whereas the non-hospitalised spent an average of 141.29 hours. The estimated US dollar valued of these hours was US517.98 and US$79.13 for hospitalised and non-hospitalised patient groups respectively. Hospitalisation and the facility of diagnosis were statistically significant (p-value <0.05) predictors of the time patients and household spent on TB.Tuberculosis poses causes tremendous burden in terms of time and productivity lost to both patients and their households in Bauchi State Nigeria.It has been estimated that about one-third of the world¡¯s population are currently infected with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and about 3 million deaths are attributable to tuberculosis each year despite the availability of antibiotics that can cure this controllable affliction [1-3].The WHO estimated the global prevalence of active Tuberculosis at 217 per 100,000 people and incidence rate of 136 per 100,000 people in 2007 [4].Nigeria was ranked fourth in burden of Tuberculosis (TB) globally with incidence rate of 311 per 100,000 populations, prevalence of 521 per 100,000 population and 93 mortalities due to TB per 100,000 populations in 2007 [4] implying significant social and economic burden in the country [5,6].Several studies have assessed the patient and household out of p
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