Effect of counseling on attendance rate of household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Qaliub chest clinic

This is a interventional study aiming to study the effect of counseling on attendance rate of household contacts of pulmonary TB cases in Qaliub chest clinic. All newly diagnosed pulmonary TB patietns attending to the clinic during the period of the study [1[st] January -30[th] June 2005] were subjected to a counseling session [25 patients]. The results were compared retrospectively with the data recorded in the period from the 1[st] of January to 31[st] December 2004. There was significant improvement in the attendance rate of household contacts as it changed from 52% before counseling [one year prior to the intervention] to 87.4% after counseling. This study recommends generalization of counseling as non-classical health education method, in all T.B control units for health education of pulmonary T.B patients