Patient compliance with tuberculosis treatment in Ghana: Factors influencing adherence to therapy in a rural service programme

ABSTRACT

Data from two questionnaires held in 1985 and 1987 among 68 and 49 PTB patients respectively; revealed that many patients visited healing churches but few admitted having consulted traditional healers; that financial expenses for transport outweighed hospital charges; that lower educational levels were not associated with poorer compliance to therapy; that health education had improved significantly in two years time. It is concluded that intervention with liaison health workers and simple health education results in improved outcome in rural service tuberculosis programme