Infection and Drug Resistance (Mar 2024)

A Cross-Sectional Study on Awareness of Tuberculosis Control Among Post-Treatment Tuberculosis Patients in a City in China

  • Jing R,
  • Dong H,
  • Huang K,
  • Liu Z,
  • Xue R,
  • Dong Y,
  • Jiao M,
  • Li N,
  • Guo Y,
  • Liu Y,
  • Zhang W,
  • Sun H

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Volume 17
pp. 1041 – 1049

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Rui Jing,1 Hui Dong,1 Kun Huang,2 Zhong Liu,1 Ran Xue,1 Yiran Dong,1 Mei Jiao,3 Na Li,4 Yumei Guo,5 Yun Liu,6 Wenqian Zhang,1 Hongyun Sun1 1Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Jinan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 2Tuberculosis Control Division, Licheng Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS Prevention and Control, Lixia Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 4Tuberculosis and Vector Control Division, Shizhong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Infectious Diseases and Endemic Disease Control, Huaiyin Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; 6AIDS Prevention and Control Department, Tianqiao Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Wenqian Zhang; Hongyun Sun, Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Jinan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 0531-81278897 ; +86 0531 81278873, Email [email protected]; [email protected]: This study aimed to investigate awareness of tuberculosis control among post-treatment tuberculosis patients, in order to provide a basis for future preventive and control work in this population.Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on post-treatment patients with tuberculosis in seven districts of Jinan City between July 2021 and December 2022. A face-to-face or telephone interviews using structured questionnaires for the research subjects were conducted by data collectors. Analyses were carried out first for all subjects, and then separately for male and female subjects.Results: A total of 837 valid questionnaires were collected, of which 495 were males and 342 were females. The awareness rate of the core TB knowledge was 82.46%. The ≥ 65 year group in the total group (OR=0.43, 95% CI: (0.28, 0.68)), male (OR=0.47, 95% CI: (0.27, 0.83)) and female group (OR=0.40, 95% CI: (0.19, 0.86)) was lower than that of the control group. Educational level and monthly income are the main factors of TB cognition in total group. People with university or higher education (OR=2.05, 95% CI: (1.38, 3.05)) and with a monthly income of ≥ 6,000 (OR=1.89, 95% CI: (1.10, 3.25)) had a higher awareness rate. The group with current residence in the city was more aware than the reference group.Conclusion: In the future, the communication of the main transmission route, suspicious symptoms, and cure of TB needs to be strengthened for the post-treatment TB patients. The elderly, those with secondary school education or below, agricultural workers and low-income people are the groups with weak knowledge of TB, and they are also the groups that need to be focused on health education. The above information should be focused on the above groups of people in order to educate them in a way that is easily acceptable to them.Keywords: pulmonary tuberculosis, awareness rate, completed treatment patients, layered analysis

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