Tuberculosis knowledge, attitudes and health-seeking behaviour in rural Uganda

Buregyeya, Esther; Kulane, Asli; Colebunders, Robert; Wajja, Anne; Kiguli, Juliet; Mayanja, Harriet; Musoke, P.; Pariyo, George; Mitchell, Ellen M. H.

doi:10.5588/ijtld.10.0211

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“…These findings may be a reflection that TB is airborne. In general, the cases were not aware of the danger in their attitudes, which was in good accordance with previous reports [10][11][12].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…''dyspnea'', ''chest pain,'' and ''long-lasting subfever'' were less frequent than ''cough with sputum'', ''malaise'', and so on, but a number of cases complained of these. Thus, it seems necessary make people aware of TB symptoms [10][11][12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Domain knowledge is very important in the formation of action. In several developing countries, TB patients are perceived to seek late care or avoid care, due to misunderstanding of popular TB etiologies such as sharing utensils, heavy labor, smoking, bewitchment, and hereditary transmission [10][11][12]. Thus, it seems very important to know the basic knowledge, attitude, and behavior of the people in such a low CDR region to implement TB programs.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors associated with tuberculosis cases in Semarang District, Indonesia: case–control study performed in the area where case detection rate was extremely low

Rahayu

Katsuyama

Demura

et al. 2015

Environ Health Prev Med

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Objectives Indonesia is ranked as the 4th highest contributor to tuberculosis (TB) in the world. Semarang District in Central Java displays extremely low case detection rate (CDR), possibly contributing to the local prevalence of TB. Methods A case-control study was performed to explore the factors that cause such low CDR. We recruited 129 TB cases and 83 controls that visited the same centers and were not diagnosed with TB. Results The cases had 7.5 ± 2.3 symptoms/person on average, indicating the delay in diagnosis because the controls only displayed 1.0 ± 1.7. The multiple logistic regression analysis comparing the cases/controls extracted following factors as a risk to have TB: farmer, close contact with TB patients, ignorance of whether Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) was accepted or no, smoking, low income, a lot of people living in the same room, irregular hand wash before meals, not wash hands after blow, soil floor, and no sunlight and no ventilation in the house. Conclusions Neither the cases nor the controls knew the symptoms and how to avoid TB infection, which probably caused the delay in diagnosis. It is difficult to change the current living conditions. Thus, the amendment of the community-based education program of TB seems to be required.

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Factors associated with tuberculosis cases in Semarang District, Indonesia: case–control study performed in the area where case detection rate was extremely low

Rahayu

Katsuyama

Demura

et al. 2015

Environ Health Prev Med

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“…Poor knowledge about TB and traditional misbelieves are associated with delays in case detection. 11,12 Awareness about duration of treatment -Out of 806 patients, 334 (41.4%) gave correct answers out of which 257 (41.5%) were literate while 77 (41.4%) were illiterate, 48(6%) patients gave incorrect answers of which 38 (6.1%) were literate and 10 (5.4%) were illiterate. Literacy wise and gender wise awareness about duration of treatment of tuberculosis has no significant association between them in this study.…”

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To Study the Perception of Patients About Duration of Treatment and Curability of Tuberculosis Disease Treated Under RNTCP in Karad Tuberculosis Unit

Bhoi¹,

Bhoi²

2015

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BACKGROUND:The Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP) in INDIA. OBJECTIVES: To study the perception of patients about duration of treatment and curability of tuberculosis disease treated under RNTCP in Karad Tuberculosis Unit. MATERIAL & METHODS: The present longitudinal study was carried out during January2008 to June 2009 on patients registered at Karad TU catering 9 PHCs, Sub District Hospital, Krishna Hospital & 6DMCs with 3ICTCs.In total 806 patients were study subjects with prior permission of District Tuberculosis Officer (DTO).Patients were interviewed using semi structured questionnaires at their residence in defined time period i.e. at the start of treatment, after completion of IP. RESULT &OBSERVATIONS: Out of 806 patients, 334 (41.4%) gave correct answers out of which 257 (41.5%) were literate while 77(41.4%) were illiterate, 48(6%) patients gave incorrect answers of which 38(6.1%) were literate and 10 (5.4%) were illiterate. Out of 806 patients, it was observed that 376 (46.6%) told disease is curable while out of which 289 (46.6%) were literate, 26(3.2%) patients told disease is not curable out of which 20 (3.2%) were literate and 6 (3.2%) were illiterate. 404 (50.1%)patients did not know the curability of disease. CONCLUSION: More than 50% of males and female patients were unaware about duration of treatment in this study. Males 225 (27.9%) were aware about the curability of tuberculosis than female 151 (18.7%) in this study.

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“…StigmatowardsTBpatientsandalsotopeoplesuspected of being infectedcangivenegative implicationsto them [31]. This refers to thedelayin findinga cureortreatmentbyTBpatients [32]. Thisdelayiscausedby the feeling in which they areashamedorafraid of the fact that theyare infectedor suspected [33], [34].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%