TB patients from the pilot sites

(Aragatsotn, Kotayk, Shirak provinces)

P-value

Comparison group

2011 and 2013

N = 163

FBC 2012

FBC 2012

participants vs. comparison group

FBC 2012 participants vs.

refusals

Participants N = 55

Refusals

N = 14

Total

N = 69

General characteristics % (n)

Age mean (SD)a

47.4

(9.6)

49.3

(12.8)

39.8

(15.9)

47.4

(13.9)

0.25

0.02b

Gender: males

74.2

(121)

61.8

(34)

78.6

(11)

66.7

(46)

0.08c

0.24

Extra-pulmonary TB

27.6

(45)

21.8

(12)

21.4

(3)

21.7

(15)

0.40

0.97

Retreated cases

24.9

(39)

25.5

(14)

14.3

(2)

23.2

(16)

0.93

0.38

Smear-positive

25.2

(41)

25.5

(14)

35.7

(5)

27.5

(19)

1.0

0.45

Treatment outcomes % (n)

‘Success’

90.2

(147)

96.4

(53)

92.9

(13)

95.7

(66)

0.08c

0.35

‘Lost-to-follow-up’

4.9

(8)

0

(0)

7.1

(1)

1.4

(1)

0.07c

0.13

‘Failure’

3.7

(6)

3.6

(2)

0

(0)

2.9

(2)

0.85

0.48

‘Death’

1.2

(2)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0.46

1.00