期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：209-218
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：Tuberculosis kills nearly 3 million persons per year worldwide. This study investigated treatment outcomes of Tuberculosis (TB) among TB cases and the factors affecting them. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using records of all patients seen at the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) Clinic of the Federal Medical Center Ido- Ekiti, Nigeria in year 2010. Information obtained from the hospital was entered into the Epi- info computer software. Frequency tables and cross tabulations were generated and a p-value of less than 0.05 was statistically significant. Successful treatment outcomes were seen in 46.1% of cases. All cases under 10 years of age had bacteriological confirmed TB. Of those with poor treatment outcome, 66.7%, 25.0%, and 8.3% were defaulters, died and treatment failure respectively. Factors that affected the TB outcome negatively were smear positive status at diagnosis, failure to give consent for HIV test, HIV co-infection, and Extra- pulmonary TB. Just about half of the cases had successful treatment outcomes. HIV co- infection and lack of consent for HIV testing are major factors determining negative treatment outcome. It is recommended that patients with TB be counseled on the need for HIV testing, linking the HIV positive patients to support groups and commencing anti-retroviral medications.
