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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 222-225.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2018.02.022

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Analysis of impact factors of medication adherence among patients with sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Wuhan

Zhan LIAN,Ting-ping WANG,Juan DU()   

  1. Department of the Sixth Medical, Tuberculosis Prevention and Cure Institute of Wuhan, Wuhan 430030, China
  • Received:2017-10-25 Online:2018-02-10 Published:2018-03-14

Abstract:

A questionnaire survey with simple random sampling was conducted by trained questionnaire surveyors to 356 sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB patients of Wuhan Tuberculosis Prevention and Cure Institute during November 2013 to May 2015. The effective recovery of the questionnaire was 342 with the recovery rate of 96.07%. The status of medication adherence and its impact factors were analyzed. Of 342 patients, 39 patients had poor medication adherence (11.40%), 303 patients had good medication adherence (88.60%). Logistic regression analysis revealed that, compared with the patients joining in the medical insurance for urban workers, patients in medical insurance for urban residents (Wald χ 2=4.37, P=0.044,OR=1.64,95%CI=1.12-3.45), patients in new rural cooperative medical insurance (Wald χ 2=8.13, P=0.013,OR=2.13,95%CI=1.59-3.38) had poorer medication compliance. Patients with poor knowledge of TB had poorer medication compliance (Wald χ 2=5.10, P=0.009,OR=2.70,95%CI=1.65-3.67). This study revealed that insurance type and knowledge of TB are impact factors for TB medication compliance.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary, Medication adherence, Cognition, Factor analysis, statistical