Delay for Tuberculosis Treatment and Its Predictors among Adult Tuberculosis Patients at Debremarkos Town Public Health Facilities, North West Ethiopia
المؤلفون المشاركون
Yehualashet, Fekadu Ambaw
Ayalew, Yibeltal Estemech
Bogale, Worknesh Akanaw
Gobeza, Mengistu Berhanu
المصدر
Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
العدد
المجلد 2020، العدد 2020 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2020)، ص ص. 1-8، 8ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2020-09-19
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
8
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
Delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis exacerbates the disease and clinical outcomes.
It further enhances transmission of the infection in the society as well as increased the severity of the illness and raised rate of mortality.
Objectives.
The major goal of this study is to determine the magnitude of delays in tuberculosis treatment and factors affecting tuberculosis treatment among adult tuberculosis patients at Debremarkos town, North West Ethiopia, 2018.
Methods.
Institution-based cross-sectional study design was employed.
Systematically selected 300 adult TB patients were recruited to the study.
The study was conducted at Debremarkos town public health facilities from March 1 to April 30, 2018.
Logistic regression models were fitted to identify the predicting variables and control confounder’s of the outcome variables.
P value ≤ 0.05 with 95% CI was considered as an indicator for the presence of statistically significant association.
The result revealed that the median total delay was 23 days (IQR: 19-28 days).
The median patient and health system delays were 20 days (IQR: 15-20 days) and 4 days (IQR: 3-5 days), respectively.
Tuberculosis patients living in a rural area were 1.14 times more likely to delay for the TB treatment (AOR: 1.141, 95% CI (1.106, 2.608)).
Patients who were unable to read and write have almost two times a chance of being delayed (AOR: 2.350, 95% CI (1.630, 2.608)).
Monthly income of patients has found another predictor for delay; patients with low monthly income were about six times more likely to delay for TB treatment (AOR: 6.375, 95% CI: (1.733, 23.440)).
Those TB patients who had visiting traditional healers before arrival to health facilities were about 2.7 times more likely to delay for TB treatment(AOR: 2.795, 95% CI (1.898, 8.693)).
Conclusion and Recommendation.
The significant proportion of delays in tuberculosis treatment was found in this study.
Living in the rural area, unable to read and write, lower monthly income, and visiting traditional healers were found independent predictors of TB treatment delay.
The regional and zonal health administrator shall design various awareness creation mechanisms to educate the public about timely initiation of tuberculosis treatment.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Ayalew, Yibeltal Estemech& Yehualashet, Fekadu Ambaw& Bogale, Worknesh Akanaw& Gobeza, Mengistu Berhanu. 2020. Delay for Tuberculosis Treatment and Its Predictors among Adult Tuberculosis Patients at Debremarkos Town Public Health Facilities, North West Ethiopia. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1213730
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Ayalew, Yibeltal Estemech…[et al.]. Delay for Tuberculosis Treatment and Its Predictors among Adult Tuberculosis Patients at Debremarkos Town Public Health Facilities, North West Ethiopia. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1213730
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Ayalew, Yibeltal Estemech& Yehualashet, Fekadu Ambaw& Bogale, Worknesh Akanaw& Gobeza, Mengistu Berhanu. Delay for Tuberculosis Treatment and Its Predictors among Adult Tuberculosis Patients at Debremarkos Town Public Health Facilities, North West Ethiopia. Tuberculosis Research and Treatment. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1213730
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1213730
قاعدة معامل التأثير والاستشهادات المرجعية العربي "ارسيف Arcif"
أضخم قاعدة بيانات عربية للاستشهادات المرجعية للمجلات العلمية المحكمة الصادرة في العالم العربي
تقوم هذه الخدمة بالتحقق من التشابه أو الانتحال في الأبحاث والمقالات العلمية والأطروحات الجامعية والكتب والأبحاث باللغة العربية، وتحديد درجة التشابه أو أصالة الأعمال البحثية وحماية ملكيتها الفكرية. تعرف اكثر