Assessment of 16‐year retrospective cohort study of factors associated with non‐compliance with a tuberculosis contact tracing programme at a Spanish hospital

Abstract

Although compliance levels have improved over the years, it remains necessary to adopt strategies that target contacts in groups identified as being at risk of non-compliance.

Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020

“…These findings highlight the importance of language concordance to effective contact tracing, especially among communities in which English is not the primary language, and who often require I&Q resources in order to safely quarantine. The findings validate existing evidence highlighting the importance of language concordance in establishing rapport and clearly communicating guidance [ 1 , 3 , 10–12 ]. Moreover, given the importance of COVID-19 testing and I&Q support services in tracing the spread of COVID-19 and allowing contacts to safely quarantine, the findings are likely to have important epidemiologic implications.…”

“…Effective communication is essential to executing a robust public health response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Language concordance, defined as clinician or public health worker fluency in a patient’s primary language, is an important factor in clinical practice and public health [ 1–4 ]. However, there is a paucity of data assessing its impact on public health actions related to COVID-19 in the United States.…”

Fatores associados à não adesão ao tratamento para tuberculose pulmonar

“…Um estudo do Jornal Mundial de Pesquisa Farmacêutica, feito na Índia, não achou resultados estatisticamente significantes quanto a variáveis como gênero, idade, estado civil e residência 68 , estando de acordo com os outros 37 artigos enquadrados nessa categoria [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]28,30,32,[34][35][36][37]40,41,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56]58,[60][61][62]64,66,67 .…”

“…Sobre a questão do etilismo, tabagismo e coinfecção por HIV, a maioria 20,22,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][37][38][39][40]42,43,[46][47][48]51,53,55,[57][58][59][60][61][62]64,65 dos artigos que analisou estas variáveis concluiu que se trata de fatores relacionados ao abandono do tratamento. Esses achados condizem com o visto em outras literaturas mais recentes [69][70][71] .…”

“…Um fator importante e muito ressaltado pelos artigos que se enquadraram nessa categoria [19][20][21][23][24][25][28][29][30][33][34][35][36][37][38]40,41,[43][44][45][46]48,49,51,52,[54][55][56][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][72][73][74][78][79][80] é a logística. Muitas pessoas abandonam o tratamento devido à longa distância entre a residência e o centro de saúde.…”