Table 2: Respondent's knowledge of tuberculosis. (Source: Researcher’s fieldwork, 2021).
|
Attribute |
Frequency |
Percentage |
|
What is Tuberculosis? |
||
|
A disease |
73 |
52.9 |
|
Curse |
25 |
18.1 |
|
Don’t know |
40 |
29.0 |
|
Causes of Tuberculosis |
||
|
Witchcraft |
22 |
15.9 |
|
Curses |
26 |
18.8 |
|
Bacteria |
83 |
60.1 |
|
Bad odour |
7 |
5.1 |
|
Mode of transmission of Tuberculosis |
||
|
Inhaling someone's cough and sneeze |
74 |
53.6 |
|
Sharing sharp objects |
27 |
19.6 |
|
Sex |
37 |
26.8 |
|
Symptoms of Tuberculosis |
||
|
Cough |
47 |
34.1 |
|
Weight loss |
48 |
34.8 |
|
Night Sweat |
17 |
12.3 |
|
Fever |
14 |
10.1 |
|
Diarrhoea |
7 |
5.1 |
|
Protruded Stomach |
2 |
1.4 |
|
Yellow Urine |
3 |
2.2 |
|
Total |
138 |
100 |