Table 2 Data screened from the articles inserted in the review from January 2003 to May 2013
From: Individual and social vulnerabilities upon acquiring tuberculosis: a literature systematic review
Ref. | Country | Year | Type of Study | Sample/Data aggregation | Aspects that characterize higher social and individual vulnerability to TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[8] | Brazil | 2012 | Ecological | Health administrative areas | Low income and educational levels |
[25] | Brazil | 2012 | Descriptive (quantitative) | 40 nurses and 36 nursing students | Lack of knowledge on the disease |
[15] | Brazil | 2011 | Transversal | 106 students | Age group 20–49 years, lack of knowledge on the disease |
[10] | Brazil | 2012 | Transversal | Notified data on all TB patients | Low income level, difficulty accessing information and health services, intense border crossing, indigenous people |
[9] | Brazil | 2012 | Descriptive case study | 55 subjects (36 health professionals and 19 TB patients | Low income and educational levels, number of people per household |
[13] | Brazil | 2005 | Descriptive retrospective | 532 TB patients’ medical records | Elderly patients |
[20] | Brazil | 2005 | Prospective and retrospective* | 9 indigenous communities | Indigenous people |
[38] | Chile | 2012 | Case control | Secondary data of 473 cases and 507 control | Diabetes Mellitus patients |
[12] | South Africa | 2010 | Transversal | 1,080 participants living in 336 dwellings (173 houses and 163 shanties) | Low income level (poor living conditions) |
[30] | Tajikistan | 2011 | Transversal | 509 migrating workers | Migrants |
[18] | Índia | 2011 | Qualitative (Focal groups and interviews) | 44 TB patients, 8 health professionals and 8 TB patients’ family members | Excessive alcohol intake |
[17] | Pakistan | 2012 | Cohort retrospective | 6,613 children under 15 in contact with TB patients | Contact with infected/bacilliferous people |
[19] | Hungary | 2009 | Transversal | 186 IV drug users | Use of IV drugs |
[24] | Brazil | 2011 | Descriptive (qualitative) | 19 TB patients | Lack of knowledge on the disease |
[5] | Brazil | 2010 | Descriptive (exploratory) | 26 TB patients | Low educational level, difficulty accessing information and health services, number of people sharing the same sleeping room |
[11] | Brazil | 2012 | Descriptive case study | 1 TB Control Program Team and 1 Family Health Team | Low income level (poor living conditions), malnutrition, unemployment or excessive working hours, excessive alcohol intake and use of other drugs |
[22] | Brazil | 2007 | Descriptive | 81 nursing workers | Lack of knowledge on the disease |
[14] | Brazil | 2013 | Qualitative | 7 TB patients | Elderly patients |
[23] | Madrid | 2009 | Transversal | 75 TB patients | Lack of knowledge on the disease |
[21] | Europe | 2006 | Transversal | Representatives of 22 countries | Prison inmates |
[16] | Washington | 2006 | Cohort | - | Homeless |
[7] | Pakistan | 2003 | Transversal | 386 prisoners | Prison inmates |