Abstract: Objective To understand the extent of the health-seeking-delay of the suspects with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), and to study it’s impact factors on rural to urban migrants and permanent residents in Chongqing City. Methods Twenty health facilities were chosen randomly in two districts of Chongqing City. The questionnaires survey was carried out in TB suspects above 15 years old. Results Of 590 questionnaires, the median of health-seeking delay was 19 days, in which 15 days for permanent residents and 22.5 days for migrants. The main impact factors on health-seeking delay included attitude to sickness, profession, educated degree, TB history, Engel index, distance to health facility, medical guarantee, gender and marriage status. Conclusion The health-seeking delay of the suspects with pulmonary tuberculosis was quite serious. The integrated intervening measures might be helpful to decrease the cases with the health-seeking delay, and raise discovery rate of TB.

Key words: Tuberculosis/prevention and control, Impact factors, Logistic regression