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TB Patients and Treatment Compliance

HEALTH EDUCATION EFFECTIVENESS IN TREATMENT COMPLIANCE AMONG TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS: A

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 research study to a

control group, with the remaining individuals being assigned to an experimental group.

The effects of participation in the tuberculosis treatment program will be assessed for each of three periods following the completion of the tuberculosis treatment education program. Covariance analysis procedures will be used to make the assessments so that differences between the two sample groups that were present at the beginning of the proposed research study with respect t...

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