Health-related quality of life among tuberculosis patients under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in rural and urban Puducherry

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• 作者：S. Ramkumar^a ; ^{drramkumar@gmail.com} ; S. Vijayalakshmi^a ; N. Seetharaman^b ; R. Pajanivel^c ; A. Lokeshmaran^b
• 关键词：Tuberculosis ; DOTS ; SF-36 ; HR-QoL ; Follow-up
• 刊名：Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：64
• 期：1
• 页码：14-19
• 全文大小：305 K
• 卷排序：64

文摘

Patients with tuberculosis have significantly lower HR-QoL than compared to non-TB controls. After 6 months of DOTS therapy, large improvements in all HR-QoL domains were found among TB patients. DOTS treatment significantly improved HR-QoL almost to the levels of non-TB controls. After successful treatment of TB, HR-QoL scores of TB patients were comparable to that of the general population. Therefore in future, TB patients should be counselled about the importance of DOTS and also efforts should be made to counsel and motivate their family members to ensure family support throughout the treatment period.