Yagnavalkya Jani|Garima Bhambhani|Nilesh Thakor
Knowledge and awareness of tuberculosis in caregivers of paediatric tuberculosis patients of north Gujarat region, India: a cross sectional study
Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College|Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College
background tuberculosis tb continues one important public health problems worldwidechildren especially vulnerable effects tuberculosis often difficult diagnose therefore difficult treat effectivelythe compliance treatment increased caregivers paediatric tb patients well aware disease treatment preventive measuresmethods cross sectional observational descriptive epidemiological study conducted gmers medical college hospital dharpurpatan located north gujarat january 2015 june 2015the study conducted among 151 pediatric tb patients currently treatment selected hospitalcaregivers patients informed purpose study informed written consent takenby interviewing basis predesigned pre tested preform information regarding socio demographic profile knowledge awareness regarding tb collectedthe collected data analyzed using statistical package social science spss 17 trial versionresults 68 450 caregivers patients knowledge regarding mode spread tb infection others89 589 caregivers patients knew curability disease104 689 caregivers patients knowledge regarding dots directly observed treatment short course chemotherapy centre tb treatment rntcp revised national tuberculosis control programme323 caregivers patients knew tb prevented bcg vaccinethe literacy status significant influence awareness tbconclusions apart pharmacological treatment poor knowledge tuberculosis caregivers paediatric tb patients also needs great attention better control prevention tb paediatric age group