Reasons of TB Treatment Non Compliance

Objective: To assess the prevalence and reasons of non compliance to treatment of tuberculosis among the patients of Sharif medical city Hospital Lahore. Material and Methods: 150 patients of tuberculosis were taken as a sample based upon non-probability convenient sampling. The data was collected by the investigators themselves with the use of semi-structured questionnaire that was finalized after pre-testing. Results: The data was analysed by putting into IBM statistics SPSS software. All the respondents(100%) have already heard about tuberculosis. The pooled prevalence of non compliance to TB is 44.4%. Conclusion: Overall level of knowledge about tuberculosis and its practices among the patients of tuberculosis attending Sharif medical city hospital Lahore was found satisfactory (40%). The majority of respondents are not taking medicine because of side effects of drugs (41.3%), fear of drugs (40%), long duration of TB treatment (62.7%) and TB clinic is far from home (66.7%).