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Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate various healthcare provisions for women affected with tuberculosis (TB) from low socioeconomic status and their health seeking behaviors, also whether or not patients feel stigmatized about their disease. INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary tuberculosis has more preva...

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Autores principales: Zil-E-Ali, Ahsan, Aadil, Muhammad, Abbas, Syed A, Ahmad, Anas, Ur Rehman, Sami, Zil-E-Ali, Fatima, Karim, Humera, Shafi, Saadia, Khan, Ammara I
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Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473951
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1133
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author Zil-E-Ali, Ahsan
Aadil, Muhammad
Abbas, Syed A
Ahmad, Anas
Ur Rehman, Sami
Zil-E-Ali, Fatima
Karim, Humera
Shafi, Saadia
Khan, Ammara I
author_facet Zil-E-Ali, Ahsan
Aadil, Muhammad
Abbas, Syed A
Ahmad, Anas
Ur Rehman, Sami
Zil-E-Ali, Fatima
Karim, Humera
Shafi, Saadia
Khan, Ammara I
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description OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate various healthcare provisions for women affected with tuberculosis (TB) from low socioeconomic status and their health seeking behaviors, also whether or not patients feel stigmatized about their disease. INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary tuberculosis has more prevalence in Pakistan as compared to western countries where it occurs predominantly in the immunocompromised individuals and immigrants of certain countries. It is a contagious disease and Pakistan stands at the fifth position with maximum reported cases each year. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried at Gulab Devi Hospital, a public sector hospital located in Lahore, through a questionnaire-based survey followed by interviewing all participants. Two hundred seventy-seven female patients, who were already diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, were included in the study. The sample was drawn by non-probability, convenience sampling. Literacy, a major contributor to socioeconomic status, was taken primary criteria to select the sample for the study. RESULTS: The study shows that literacy of patients has no impact on whether they feel stigmatized due to their disease as 42% (45 out of 108) of the literate women felt stigmatized while 39% (65 out of 169) of illiterate women also presented with similar feelings. Furthermore, the research also showed that these patients have no effect on requiring permission for going to the health facility as the study revealed that 62% (67 out of 108) in the literate women required permission while 67% (113 out of 169) illiterate women required permission. CONCLUSION: Pakistani population must be educated about TB and factors associated with the progression and consequences of the disease. It was noted that even educated people feel embarrassed when they develop symptoms of TB, thereby causing the unprecedented delay in effective disease management. To conclude, TB clinic should be opened in each community so that people have easy access to treatment of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-54153792017-05-04 Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan Zil-E-Ali, Ahsan Aadil, Muhammad Abbas, Syed A Ahmad, Anas Ur Rehman, Sami Zil-E-Ali, Fatima Karim, Humera Shafi, Saadia Khan, Ammara I Cureus Public Health OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate various healthcare provisions for women affected with tuberculosis (TB) from low socioeconomic status and their health seeking behaviors, also whether or not patients feel stigmatized about their disease. INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary tuberculosis has more prevalence in Pakistan as compared to western countries where it occurs predominantly in the immunocompromised individuals and immigrants of certain countries. It is a contagious disease and Pakistan stands at the fifth position with maximum reported cases each year. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried at Gulab Devi Hospital, a public sector hospital located in Lahore, through a questionnaire-based survey followed by interviewing all participants. Two hundred seventy-seven female patients, who were already diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, were included in the study. The sample was drawn by non-probability, convenience sampling. Literacy, a major contributor to socioeconomic status, was taken primary criteria to select the sample for the study. RESULTS: The study shows that literacy of patients has no impact on whether they feel stigmatized due to their disease as 42% (45 out of 108) of the literate women felt stigmatized while 39% (65 out of 169) of illiterate women also presented with similar feelings. Furthermore, the research also showed that these patients have no effect on requiring permission for going to the health facility as the study revealed that 62% (67 out of 108) in the literate women required permission while 67% (113 out of 169) illiterate women required permission. CONCLUSION: Pakistani population must be educated about TB and factors associated with the progression and consequences of the disease. It was noted that even educated people feel embarrassed when they develop symptoms of TB, thereby causing the unprecedented delay in effective disease management. To conclude, TB clinic should be opened in each community so that people have easy access to treatment of the disease. Cureus 2017-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5415379/ /pubmed/28473951 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1133 Text en Copyright © 2017, Zil-E-Ali et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Public Health
Zil-E-Ali, Ahsan
Aadil, Muhammad
Abbas, Syed A
Ahmad, Anas
Ur Rehman, Sami
Zil-E-Ali, Fatima
Karim, Humera
Shafi, Saadia
Khan, Ammara I
Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan
title Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan
title_full Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan
title_fullStr Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan
title_short Cross-Sectional Survey of Healthcare Provisions for Female Tuberculosis Patients in Specialized Pulmonary Division from Low Socioeconomic Class in Lahore, Pakistan
title_sort cross-sectional survey of healthcare provisions for female tuberculosis patients in specialized pulmonary division from low socioeconomic class in lahore, pakistan
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473951
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1133
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