Qualitative study about how to improve treatment adherence of patients with Tuberculosis / 重庆医科大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective:To evaluate the effect to treatment adherence of defaulter action implement for patients with Tuberculosis in Chongqing and explore a proper cure management system to timely find out the TB patients who stop picking medicine on time;Methods:Carrying out intervention method to TB patients with positive sputum in intervention counties,then using qualitative study to analysis the effect of implementing the intervention;Results:After the intervention,the adherence of TB patients is obviously improved;Conclusion:Proposed method is a effective and feasible management to the TB patients who stop picking medicine during anti-TB treatment,which bring positive effect on TB patients' adherence and TB cure rate.