A Study on Socio-demographic Factors Affecting Treatment Outcome of Patients Registered in a Tuberculosis Unit of Purba Barddhaman District in West Bengal, India.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 12
Abstract
Tuberculosis is one of the most globally serious public health problems, despite its causative organism was discovered more than 100 years and highly effective drugs and vaccines are available making tuberculosis a preventable and curable disease. A clinic based, descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted in a rural block of Burdwan district among 180 adult new pulmonary TB patients for duration of 10 months with the objectives of 1. To study the socio-demographic characteristics of the Tuberculosis patients receiving Directly Observed Treatment Short course chemotherapy. 2. To look for the treatment outcome of those patients and the factors that might influence the outcome. Complete enumeration method was used. Results revealed that 72.3 % were males and 27.7% were females; 82.7 % were economically productive age groups (15 – 54 ) years. General caste and Scheduled Caste were 40.2% and 32.5% respectively. 43.3 % have primary level of education, 35.0% were illiterate or just literate and only 0.6 % was graduate. By occupation 36.1% labourer, 28.9% farmer and 4.4% were dependent and unemployed. 74.4 % were from upper lower class. Majority of the patients were smokers (67.2%). Among 180 patients, 68 (37.8%) were cured, 77 (42.8%) completed their treatment. 3 (1.2%) were reported as treatment failure; 27 (15.0%) were defaulted and 5 (2.7%) died during treatment period. No patient was transferred out during the study period.
Authors and Affiliations
Sutapa Mandal, Raston Mondal, Somnath Naskar, Aditya Prasad Sarkar, Sridip Mandal
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