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An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients
BACKGROUND: Nowadays establishing communication and educating patients to enhance their knowledge regarding disease and treatment process at home is one of the most important principles in providing patient care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A semi-experimental study was done on 57 patients with active pu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26858763 |
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author | Yekrang Sis, Hassan Rashedi, Jalil Azabdaftari, Fariba Mahdavi Poor, Behroz Asgharzadeh, Mohammad Jannati, Ali Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad |
author_facet | Yekrang Sis, Hassan Rashedi, Jalil Azabdaftari, Fariba Mahdavi Poor, Behroz Asgharzadeh, Mohammad Jannati, Ali Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad |
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description | BACKGROUND: Nowadays establishing communication and educating patients to enhance their knowledge regarding disease and treatment process at home is one of the most important principles in providing patient care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A semi-experimental study was done on 57 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis in two care groups namely professional – family mix directly observed treatment short- course (PFM-DOTS) and family based-DOTS (FB-DOTS). The patients were referred to the tuberculosis and lung diseases research center for diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Both the patient and a family supervisor were evaluated regarding their level of knowledge of the disease and the treatment regimen. RESULTS: A significant difference between the degree of knowledge of groups of patients and the groups of family relatives before and after the intervention was indicated, with a higher increase in PFM-DOTS group than in F-B-DOTS group (P< 0.001). In PFM- DOTS group 100% of the patients, and in the FB-DOTS group 86.8% of the patients followed the recommended drug regimen (P<0.001). CONCLUSION: According to the treatment recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) for appropriate implementation of DOTS project combating TB, it seems the PFM-DOTS implementation is a more suitable method with greater effects on correct care and treatment of tuberculosis patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-47451862016-02-08 An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients Yekrang Sis, Hassan Rashedi, Jalil Azabdaftari, Fariba Mahdavi Poor, Behroz Asgharzadeh, Mohammad Jannati, Ali Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad Tanaffos Original Article BACKGROUND: Nowadays establishing communication and educating patients to enhance their knowledge regarding disease and treatment process at home is one of the most important principles in providing patient care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A semi-experimental study was done on 57 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis in two care groups namely professional – family mix directly observed treatment short- course (PFM-DOTS) and family based-DOTS (FB-DOTS). The patients were referred to the tuberculosis and lung diseases research center for diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Both the patient and a family supervisor were evaluated regarding their level of knowledge of the disease and the treatment regimen. RESULTS: A significant difference between the degree of knowledge of groups of patients and the groups of family relatives before and after the intervention was indicated, with a higher increase in PFM-DOTS group than in F-B-DOTS group (P< 0.001). In PFM- DOTS group 100% of the patients, and in the FB-DOTS group 86.8% of the patients followed the recommended drug regimen (P<0.001). CONCLUSION: According to the treatment recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) for appropriate implementation of DOTS project combating TB, it seems the PFM-DOTS implementation is a more suitable method with greater effects on correct care and treatment of tuberculosis patients. National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4745186/ /pubmed/26858763 Text en Copyright© 2015 National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Yekrang Sis, Hassan Rashedi, Jalil Azabdaftari, Fariba Mahdavi Poor, Behroz Asgharzadeh, Mohammad Jannati, Ali Asghari Jafarabadi, Mohammad An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients |
title | An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients |
title_full | An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients |
title_fullStr | An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients |
title_short | An Innovative Method to Enhance the Modified DOTS for TB Patients |
title_sort | innovative method to enhance the modified dots for tb patients |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26858763 |
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