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Patient Health Seeking and Diagnostic Delay in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Hospital Based Study from Central India
المؤلفون المشاركون
Purohit, Manju Raj
Purohit, Rajvi
Mustafa, Tehmina
المصدر
Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
العدد
المجلد 2019، العدد 2019 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2019)، ص ص. 1-8، 8ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2019-02-03
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
8
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Objective.
We aimed to investigate the awareness, health care seeking behavior, and diagnostic delay in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) in a resource-constrained setting from Central India.
Setting and Method.
Questionnaire based interview of 1220 EPTB patients ≥14 years of age was conducted between July 2004 and August 2012 at Ujjain charitable Hospital, Ujjain, India.
Results.
Only 15% of patients had ever heard about EPTB and 2-4% knew about its prevention or treatment.
Only 12% patients first sought medical advice while 49% patients practiced self-medication, 28% consulted traditional healers and 11% drug store/pharmacy.
The median patient delay was 8 weeks (4.6-21.4 weeks).
Majority (78%) of patients visited ≥3 health centers.
Thirty-eight percent patients first visited any government health facility.
Majority (97%) who first visited district and primary public health center were referred to private sector for investigations and 82% patients changed the consultation to private doctor after initial visit to public hospital.
The median health system delay was 7 weeks (0.6-16.4 weeks).
Conclusion.
Patients had very poor awareness of EPTB.
Patients were referred from public to private sector in search of diagnostic facilities.
Improvement of public awareness about EPTB and better public-private partnership may contribute towards reduction in diagnostic delay.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Purohit, Manju Raj& Purohit, Rajvi& Mustafa, Tehmina. 2019. Patient Health Seeking and Diagnostic Delay in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Hospital Based Study from Central India. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1211775
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Purohit, Manju Raj…[et al.]. Patient Health Seeking and Diagnostic Delay in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Hospital Based Study from Central India. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1211775
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Purohit, Manju Raj& Purohit, Rajvi& Mustafa, Tehmina. Patient Health Seeking and Diagnostic Delay in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Hospital Based Study from Central India. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1211775
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1211775
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