2016-11-24T02-40-43Z
Source: International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
Meet Chauhan, J. P. Mehta, Trusha Kansagara, Prashant Dave, Mehul Patel.
Background: Tuberculosis is a social disease with medical aspect. It has also been described as barometer of social welfare. India is the second-most populous country in the world. One fourth of the global incident TB cases occur in India annually. Various social and demographic factors are variably related to poor adherence. Methods: A longitudinal study was designed and all category II TB patients registered for DOTS treatment during period from July 2014 to December 2014 (2 Quarter), of corporation area in tuberculosis register of district TB centre were included in present study. Considering exclusion criteria total 89 patients were studied in present study. Results: Out of 89 patients median age (+SD) of the patients were 38±16.1 years , 75.28% were male, around 40.45% were labourers, around 29.31% patients were illiterate, over all treatment success is 59 (66.29%). Out of 63 literate patients, 79.36% patients were successfully treated, while Among 26 illiterate patients, only 34.61% patients were successfully treated. Treatment outcome lower class (Modified B.G. Prasad classification class IV and class V) having only 53.70% treatment success rate. Conclusions: The findings of this study suggest that improvement in quality of life is necessary for better outcome. Future programme or research should focus on improvement of quality of life as well as reducing the duration of treatment for better compliance with.
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Πέμπτη 24 Νοεμβρίου 2016
Relationship between various social and demographic factors and its relation with treatment outcome in category II cases of tuberculosis in corporation area of Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
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