Exclusion criteria
diabetes, HIV, heart disease, PTB, ill
Those too ill to participate, and cases of retreatment PTB patients were excluded. PTB patients who were started on treatment from private facilities, PTB patients with other comorbidities such as diabetes, HIV, heart disease, etc. were excluded from the study. A PTB patient who is a family member to another PTB patients who has already been recruited into this study was also excluded.