Estudo de casos sobre abandono do tratamento da tuberculose: avaliação do atendimento, percepção e conhecimentos sobre a doença na perspectiva dos clientes (Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil)

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Mary Braga de
• Data de Publicação: 2001
• Outros Autores: Mello, Dalva A., Morais, Ana Patrícia P., Silva, Weber C. da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UnB
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/25748; https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X2001000400021
• topic: Tuberculosis; Health Services; Treatment Refusal; Tuberculose; Serviços de Saúde; Recusa do Paciente ao Tratamento

This research was developed in 1995-1996 in the Oliveira Pombo Health Center (CSOP), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. The aim was to explore factors influencing non-adherence to tuberculosis treatment. Specific objectives were: dynamics of tuberculosis notification and treatment of non-adherence cases at the CSOP; demographic, social, economic, and cultural profiles of clientele (social actors); default reasons that interrupt treatment; and knowledge and perception of the disease. The methodological approach was based on descriptive epidemiology and on sociological interpretivism. A semi-structured interview was used for questions related to the social actors, such as: demographic, social, economic, cultural, and behavioral factors; knowledge and perceptions of tuberculosis and treatment; impact of the disease on patients' lives; and perspectives concerning health service attendance. Results show that treatment non-compliance involved multiple and complex interrelated factors.