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dc.contributor.authorBuregyeya, E.
dc.contributor.authorKulane, A.
dc.contributor.authorColebunders, R.
dc.contributor.authorWajja, A.
dc.contributor.authorKiguli, J.
dc.contributor.authorMayanja, H.
dc.contributor.authorMusoke, P.
dc.contributor.authorPariyo, G.
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, E. M. H.
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-20T15:36:33Z
dc.date.available2014-06-20T15:36:33Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationBuregyeya, E. et al. (2011). Tuberculosis knowledge, attitudes and health-seeking behaviour in rural Uganda, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 15(7): 938–942en_US
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.5588/ijtld.10.0211
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.10.0211
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/2938
dc.description.abstractOBJECTIVES: To assess tuberculosis (TB) knowledge, attitudes and health-seeking behaviour to inform the design of communication and social mobilisation interventions. SETTING: Iganga/Mayuge Demographic Surveillance Site, Uganda. DESIGN: Between June and July 2008, 18 focus group discussions and 12 key informant interviews were conducted, including parents of infants and adolescents and key informant interviews with community leaders, traditional healers and patients with TB. RESULTS: People viewed TB as contagious, but not necessarily an airborne pathogen. Popular TB aetiologies included sharing utensils, heavy labour, smoking, bewitchment and hereditary transmission. TB patients were perceived to seek care late or to avoid care. Combining care from traditional healers and the biomedical system was common. Poverty, drug stock-outs, fear of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and length of TB treatment negatively affect health-seeking behaviour. Stigma and avoidance of persons with TB often reflects an assumption of HIV co-infection. CONCLUSION: The community’s concerns about pill burden, quality of care, financial barriers, TB aetiology, stigma and preference for pluralistic care need to be addressed to improve early detection. Health education messages should emphasise the curability of TB, the feasibility of treatment and the engagement of traditional healers as partners in identifying cases and facilitating adherence to treatment.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseaseen_US
dc.subjectTuberculosisen_US
dc.subjectHealth-seeking behaviouren_US
dc.subjectStigmaen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.titleTuberculosis knowledge, attitudes and health-seeking behaviour in rural Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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