Sophie Huddart|Thomas Bossuroy|Vincent Pons|Siddhartha Baral|Madhukar Pai|Clara Delavallade
Knowledge about tuberculosis and infection prevention behavior: A nine city longitudinal study from India
McGill University|World Bank|Harvard University|International Food Policy Research Institute|McGill University|World Bank
improving patients tuberculosis tb knowledge salient component tb control strategies patient knowledge tb may encourage infection prevention behaviors improve treatment adherence purpose study examine tb knowledge infection prevention behaviors change course treatmenta matched patienthealth worker dataset n 6031 publicly treated tb patients ngoprovided treatment support health workers compiled nine indian cities march 2013 september 2014 beginning end tb treatment patients asked knowledge tb symptoms transmission treatment infection prevention behaviorspatients beginning tb treatment n 3424 demonstrated moderate knowledge tb 525 508 542 knew cough symptom tb 672 656 687 knew tb communicable overall patient knowledge significantly associated literacy education income higher end treatment beginning 37 ci 302 447 infection prevention behaviors like covering cough 634 ci 612 650 sleeping separately 193 ci 180 207 less prevalent age difference patient health worker well shared language significantly predicted patient knowledge adherence infection prevention behaviorssocial proximity health worker patients predicted greater knowledge adherence infection prevention behaviors latter rate remains undesirably low