Education for tuberculous patients: a quest about the knowledges and impact upon the therapeutic results

ABSTRACT

At the begining of 1990, and on the occasion of the adoption of the new programme of fight against tuberculosis, the Moroccan Association of Prevention and Health Education decided to arrange sessions of health education. These sessions concerned persons with tuberculosis in the Great Wilaya of Casablanca. In order to evaluate this act, we compared the therapeutic results of two groups of 100 patients, the first group received a health education, the other, reference sample, was treated under usual conditions. We noticed that the educated patients "knowledge about tuberculosis notably improved; these patients had better adhesion to treatment against 18% in the reference group. [p=0.03]. Whereas, relapse and death. The relative success of our intervention may be explained by the persistance of supervisory problems, thereby diminishing the effectiveness of the health education and causing bad patient/health agent relationship