Care Seeking Behavior of Chest Symptomatics: A Community Based Study Done in South India after the Implementation of the RNTCP

Niruparani Charles, Beena Thomas, Basilea Watson, Raja Sakthivel M., Chandrasekeran V. and Fraser Wares

PLOS ONE, 2010, vol. 5, issue 9, 1-6

Abstract: Introduction: With the creation of the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP), tuberculosis services have become decentralized and more accessible. A 1997 study prior to RNTCP implementation reported that most chest symptomatics accessed first private health care facilities and a general dissatisfaction with government health facilities. The study was repeated post-RNTCP implementation to gain insight into the current care seeking behavior of chest symptomatics. Methodology: A cross-sectional community-based study carried out between March-August 2008 in 4 sites (2 rural [R] and 2 urban [U]) from the same two districts of Chennai and Madurai, southern India, as in the 1997 study. Six hundred and forty chest symptomatics were identified (R 314; U 326), and detailed interviews were done for 606 (R311; U295). Results: Prevalence of chest symptomatics in the urban and rural areas were 2.7% and 4.9% respectively (p

Date: 2010
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