Correlates of tobacco use among tuberculosis patients in South Africa: A brief report

Peltzer, Karl

doi:10.1080/14330237.2016.1219567

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“…However, this study found that tobacco use remained unchanged over the course of TB treatment. This finding is in agreement with two previous studies 23 , 24 and in disagreement with another study that found a decline of tobacco use during TB treatment, 25 while, in a study in Indonesia, most TB patients were found to stop smoking when under TB treatment but a large group would relapse to smoking post-treatment. 34 In multivariable analysis, tobacco use but not depression symptoms was associated with hazardous or harmful alcohol use and binge drinking in this study.…”

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Alcohol use disorder and tuberculosis treatment: A longitudinal mixed method study in Thailand

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ObjectiveThe relationship between tuberculosis (TB) treatment and alcohol use disorders over time is under-researched. The aim of this investigation was to study alcohol use and TB medication adherence and its predictors among TB patients over a period of 6 months.MethodsA longitudinal investigation was carried out with new TB and TB retreatment patients systematically selected from two hospitals and had screened positive for hazardous or harmful alcohol use in Sisaket Province in Thailand. Alcohol use disorders were measured with Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)-C at baseline, 3 months and 6 months.ResultsOf the 295 TB patients who were screened with AUDIT-C, 72 (24.4%) tested positive for hazardous or harmful alcohol use. At 6 months, 72 TB patients had completed the follow-up. At the 6-month follow-up, hazardous or harmful drinking was reduced by 84.7%. Multivariate logistic regression analysis using generalised estimation equation modelling found that alcohol use significantly reduced over time, whereas there was no change in current tobacco use.ConclusionThe prevalence of alcohol use disorders significantly reduced over a period of 6 months.

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“…However, in a large alcohol intervention trial with TB patients in South Africa, daily or almost daily tobacco use significantly reduced over time during TB treatment. 25 …”

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“…We conducted a multilevel analysis of selfreported tuberculosis disease in a nationally representative sample of South Africans based on the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS, even though they were all crosssectional studies. Non-heavy smoking was also identified as associated with TB maybe because, as reported by [21], once TB patients are diagnosed, most tend to reduce cigarettes intake. Income and expenditure are associated with TB [18,20] but in this study, having an odds ratio of one means that a unit increase in household income or expenditure from year to year has no impact on the average probability of being diagnosed with TB.…”

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Tuberculosis risk factors in South Africa, 2008 to 2017: A Generalised Estimating Equations approach

Dhlakama

Lougue

Mwambi

2023

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Background: Although, death due to tuberculosis has been on the decline. In 2016, 124 000 people died of tuberculosis in South Africa and the disease was declared the leading cause of death by Statistics South Africa. Continued efforts to use research to create a nation free of tuberculosis are underway. Methods: A repeated measures investigation was performed with the aim of identifying the persistent predictors and the long-term patterns of tuberculosis infection in South Africa for the period 2008 to 2017. The most suitable Generalised Estimating Equations that describe the population average probability of infection over time were applied to a sample of respondents taken from the National Income Dynamics Survey data, wave 1 to wave 5. The response variable was binary with the outcome of interest being the respondents that self-reported to have been diagnosed with tuberculosis. To improve estimation efficiency, the best working correlation matrix for this data was selected. Results: We used a sample of 8510 individuals followed for five waves, of these, 3.7%, 2.54%, 4.15%, 5.72% and 5.99% for waves 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively, reported to have been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Findings revealed that the independent working correlation matrix with the model-based standard error estimates gave the most robust results for the repeated measures tuberculosis data in South Africa. Furthermore, over the years, the average probability of being diagnosed with tuberculosis was positively associated with being single, male, middle-aged (30- 59 years), black African, unemployed, smoking, lower education levels, lack of regular exercise, asthma, suffering from other diseases, lack of access to improved sanitation, lower household income and expenditure. Conclusion: The probabilities of tuberculosis infection are independent within individuals over time. The inequalities in socioeconomic status in South Africa caused the poor to be more at risk of tuberculosis over time from 2008 to 2017.

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Correlates of tobacco use among tuberculosis patients in South Africa: A brief report

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Alcohol use disorder and tuberculosis treatment: A longitudinal mixed method study in Thailand

Alcohol use disorder and tuberculosis treatment: A longitudinal mixed method study in Thailand

Tuberculosis risk factors in South Africa, 2008 to 2017: A Generalised Estimating Equations approach

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