TB Patients and Treatment Compliance

A proposal is presented for the investigation of the relationship between participation in a tuberculosis treatment education program and compliance with treatment regimens by tuberculosis patients. Patient non compliance is a major problem in the control of tuberculosis. The purpose of the proposed study is to determine whether a health education program for persons infected with tuberculosis will lead to increased treatment compliance by those persons. The hypothesis that will be tested in the proposed research study holds that treatment compliance among tuberculosis patients who complete a tuberculosis treatment education program will be higher than treatment compliance among tuberculosis patients not exposed to such a health education program.

The proposed research study will examine the effectiveness of a single tuberculosis treatment education program on treatment compliance among tuberculosis patients served by a single metropolitan hospital. The examination of treatment programs with differing structures or content will not be a part of the proposed study.

A sample of tuberculosis patients will be selected through the application of random procedures from the population of tuberculosis patients at a major metropolitan hospital. Random procedures will be used to assign onehalf of those individuals agreeing to participate in the proposed res

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urvey is also the most effective means of collecting objective data from subjects, because the responses can be without attribution (Dyer, 1985, p. 32). A survey is "a process of collecting data from existing population units, with no particular control over factors that may affect the population characteristics of interest in the study" (Pfaffenberger and Paterson, 1991, p. 13). Six specific steps are involved in the planning of a survey (Pfaffenberger and Paterson, 1991, pp. 1415). These steps are as follows: 1. A clear and detailed statement of the problem to be investigated must be developed. The problem statement should clearly indicate what is to be determined by the conduct of the survey (Pfaffenberger and Paterson, 1991, pp. 1415). Such a problem statement has been provided in this proposal for the conduct of a research study. 2. A decision must be made with respect to the number of subjects to be surveyed. The choice in this instance is between a census of the population of interest, or a sample of that population (Pfaffenberger and Paterson, 1991, pp. 1415). A sample will be used in the proposed research study, and this sample is described later in this section. 3. The framework of the survey must be d
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