Delays and care seeking behavior among tuberculosis patients in Tigray of Northern Ethiopia

Knowledge and health seeking behaviour of tuberculosis patients in Kerala, India

“…Illiterates were observed to have a significant association with patient delay in studies done in Tamil Nadu, Tanzania, Gambia, Ethiopia. 6,9,29,30 Contrary to our findings studies at Colombia, Brazil found that unemployment was associated with patient delay. 28,31 Lose of wages and schedules at the workplace may serve as a deterrent to seeking care, hence causing delay.…”

Factors associated with treatment delay among tuberculosis patients referred from a tertiary hospital in Dhaka City: a cross-sectional study

“…19 A study conducted in Ethiopia reported that older persons were more likely to have treatment delays than younger persons (OR 2.3, 95%CI 1.2-4.5). 20 In our study, we found that persons from the younger age group (⩽26 years) were more likely to experience treatment delays than those from the older age group (>26 years).…”

Delay in Diagnosis of Tuberculosis among Under Treatment Patients in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

“…5,16,20,24 Several studies has highlighted that illiteracy was significantly associated with diagnostic delay. [25][26][27] Our study revealed that education is one of the most significant factors that closely associated with delay in diagnosis among patients. Lower educated patients (0-5 years of schooling) constituted the higher number and low level of education has somewhat significant impact on patient's diagnostic delay as well.…”

“…5,15,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] In this study, the higher percentage of patients went to public hospital for seeking health care, but diagnostic delay were higher among those went to pharmacy at first for seeking health care before the diagnosis. A study in Ethiopia, patients who first visited a qualified medical provider experienced delay before initiation of diagnosis and treatment.…”