%0 Journal Article
%T Household members and health care workers as supervisors of tuberculosis treatment
%A Maciel
%A Ethel Leonor Noia
%A Guidoni
%A Leticia Molino
%A Brioshi
%A Ana Paula
%A Prado
%A Thiago Nascimento do
%A Fregona
%A Geisa
%A Hadad
%A David Jamil
%A Molino
%A Lucilia Pereira
%A Palaci
%A Moises
%A Johnson
%A John L
%A Dietze
%A Reynaldo
%J Revista de Sa¨²de P¨²blica
%D 2010
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/S0034-89102010000200015
%X objective: to compare tuberculosis cure rates among patients supervised by household members or health care workers. methods: prospective cohort study of 171 patients treated by the program in vitoria, southeastern brazil, from 2004 to 2007. each patient was followed-up for six months until the end of the treatment. of the patients studied, a household member supervised 59 patients and healthcare workers supervised 112 patients. patients' sociodemographic and clinic data were analyzed. differences between groups were assessed using chi-square test or student's t-test. significance level was set at 5%. results: most patients had smear positive, culture confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis. two patients were hiv-positive. there were more illiterate patients in the healthcare-supervised group, in comparison to those supervised by their families (p=0.01). all patients supervised by a household member were cured compared to 90% of the patients supervised by health care workers (p = 0.024). conclusions: successful tuberculosis treatment was more frequent when supervised by household members.
%K tuberculosis [nursing]
%K homebound persons
%K family nursing
%K caregivers
%K home nursing
%K medication therapy management
%K treatment outcome
%K cohort studies.
%U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-89102010000200015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en