作者
Olanrewaju Oladimeji, Boniface Ayanbekongshie Ushie, Ekerette Emmanuel Udoh, Kelechi Elizabeth Oladimeji, Olusoji Mayowa Ige, Olusegun Obasanya, Daisy Lekharu, Olayinka Atilola, Lovett Lawson, Osman Eltayeb, Mustapha Gidado, Joyce M Tsoka-Gwegweni, Chikwe A Ihekweazu, Charles S Chasela
发表日期
2016/10/1
期刊
BMJ global health
卷号
1
期号
3
页码范围
e000006
出版商
BMJ Specialist Journals
简介
Background and objective
Patient isolation, which is a widely successful treatment strategy for tuberculosis (TB), has been suspected to have effects on patient psychosocial wellbeing. We assessed the psychosocial wellbeing of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients in voluntary and isolated long-term hospitalisation in Nigeria.
Methods
98 accessible and consenting patients in four drug-resistant treatment centres (University College Hospital and Government Chest Hospital, Ibadan; Mainland Hospital, Lagos, and Lawrence Henshaw Memorial Hospital, Calabar) were enrolled in this study. Data were collected using an 18-item psychosocial wellbeing questionnaire including sociodemographic characteristics. We used descriptive statistics to present demographic characteristics; the χ2 test was used to assess associations between psychosocial wellbeing and independent variables and the relationship was …
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