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Table 3 Treatment outcomes for control and intervention groups

From: Effects of financial incentives for treatment supporters on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Swaziland: a pragmatic interventional study

 

Control N,% (95 % CI)

Intervention N,% (95 % CI)

p-value

Treatment success

553, 60.4 %

117, 72.7 %

0.003*

(57.2–63.5 %)

(65.8–79.6 %)

Treatment completion

423, 46.2 %

98, 60.9 %

0.001*

(43.0–49.4 %)

(53.4–68.4 %)

Cure

130, 14.2 %

19, 11.8 %

0.426

(11.9–16.5 %)

(6.8–16.8 %)

Incomplete treatment

339, 37.0 %

40, 24.8 %

0.003*

(33.9–40.1 %)

(18.1–31.5 %)

Default

98, 10.7 %

14, 8.7 %

0.443

(8.7–12.7 %)

(4.3–13.1 %)

Death

215, 23.5 %

17, 10.6 %

<0.001*

(20.8–26.2 %)

(5.8–15.4 %)

Treatment failure

26, 2.8 %

9, 5.6 %

0.069

(1.7–3.9 %)

(2.0–9.2 %)

Transferred out

24, 2.6 %

4, 2.5 %

1.000

(1.6–3.6 %)

(0.1–4.9 %)

  1. * p-value <0.05 i.e. statistically significant